In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue is renamed Haiti, a group of women gather to bury a stillborn baby. “ novel flows gracefully and is wonderfully dreamlike, with the danger of the islands matched by the characters’ dark pasts.” Will they find a way to stave off the spread of the glass? Love must be paid in precious hours and, as the glass encroaches, time is slipping away fast.
As Midas helps Ida come to terms with her affliction, she gradually unpicks the knots of his heart. When he meets Ida, something about her sad, defiant spirit pierces his emotional defenses. Midas Crook is a young loner who has lived on the islands his entire life. Yet during that one fateful visit, the glass transformation began to take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure. Ida is an outsider in these parts, a mainlander who has visited the islands only once before. Unusual winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass.
Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. “Oyeyemi exuberantly opens doors into other realms, minds and eras-and uncovers beautiful truths at every twisted turn.” Fox is offered a choice: Will it be a life with the girl of his dreams, or a life with an all-too-real woman who delights him more than he cares to admit? Meanwhile, Daphne becomes convinced that her husband is having an affair, and finds her way into Mary and Mr. Their adventures twist the fairy tale into nine variations, exploding and teasing conventions of genre and romance, and each iteration explores the fears that come with accepting a lifelong bond. Fox to join her in stories of their own devising and in different times and places, the two of them seek each other, find each other, thwart each other, and try to stay together, even when the roles they inhabit seem to forbid it. It’s not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently. Fox can’t stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don’t get complicated.
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