Still, Apollo enjoys his own great love story with his wife Emma and yearns to be a better parent for his infant son Brian. Like a woke Brothers Grimm, his clever new spin on the ages-old changeling myth is a modern fairy tale for the Trump era, taking on fatherhood, parenting, marriage, immigration, race and terrifying loss.Īpollo Kagwa is a New York City rare bookseller whose father left him and his Ugandan mother mysteriously when he was a child years later, he's haunted by nightmares involving his dad. LaValle has merged horror and social consciousness before - The Ballad of Black Tom used Harlem as a setting for retelling a Lovecraft tale. Yet Victor LaValle magically weaves both into his bewitching masterpiece The Changeling (Spiegel & Grau, 448 pp., **** out of four stars). The troll you’d find in old folklore is of a different ilk than those found in contemporary times - the former lurked in a forest, the latter on the Internet.
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