A review by gabesteller
The Changeling by Joy Williams
5.0
Advertised by Paddy as having as having an “Unclassifiable tone” a Nice young Lady and her son get sorta kidnapped by her boyfriend to come live on his island off the coast of Florida with his brother and friends and their many communally raised/increasingly feral children.
And woohoo! Checked all my boxes! , super funny, grotesque, unsettling, regular gross, with a sense of steadily deepening dread, scary growth/life stuff, and playing around with fairy tales/religion in general.
Especially liked all the blurrings, inversions and transfigurations, Child adult, human animal, high/low culture etc and how Williams likes to take archetypes and themes to such extremes that they begin to subvert themselves.
I feel a little bad handing out so may high ratings recently but I just been picking some good stuff for me recently. Ya know gotta Know thyself.
And woohoo! Checked all my boxes! , super funny, grotesque, unsettling, regular gross, with a sense of steadily deepening dread, scary growth/life stuff, and playing around with fairy tales/religion in general.
Especially liked all the blurrings, inversions and transfigurations, Child adult, human animal, high/low culture etc and how Williams likes to take archetypes and themes to such extremes that they begin to subvert themselves.
I feel a little bad handing out so may high ratings recently but I just been picking some good stuff for me recently. Ya know gotta Know thyself.