The Changeling: A Novel

The Changeling: A Novel

â€œIf the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaValle.â€â€”Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

â€œA dark fairy tale of New York, full of magic and loss, myth and mystery, love and madness. The Changeling is a mesmerizing, monumental work.â€â€”Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

A summer reading pick by The New York Times â€¢ O: The Oprah Magazine â€¢ Vulture â€¢ PopSugar â€¢ Publishers Weekly

When Apollo Kagwaâ€™s father disappeared, all he left his son were strange recurring dreams and a box of books stamped with the word IMPROBABILIA. Now Apollo is a father himselfâ€”and as he and his wife, Emma, are settling into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Apolloâ€™s old dreams return and Emma begins acting odd. Irritable and disconnected from their new baby boy, at first Emma seems to be exhibiting signs of postpartum depression, but it quickly becomes clear that her troubles go even deeper. Before Apollo can do anything to help, Emma commits a horrific actâ€”beyond any parentâ€™s comprehensionâ€”and vanishes, seemingly into thin air.

Thus begins Apolloâ€™s odyssey through a world he only thought he understood, to find a wife and child who are nothing like heâ€™d imagined. His quest, which begins when he meets a mysterious stranger who claims to have information about Emmaâ€™s whereabouts, takes him to a forgotten island, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever.

This captivating retelling of a classic fairy tale imaginatively exploresÂ parental obsession, spousal love, and the secrets that make strangers out of the people we love the most. Itâ€™s a thrilling and emotionally devastating journey through the gruesome legacies that threaten to devour us and the homely, messy magic that saves us, if weâ€™re lucky.

â€œLaValleâ€™s haunting tale weaves a mesmerizing web around fatherhood, racism, horrific anxieties and even To Kill a Mockingbird.â€â€”Janet Maslin, The New York Times

â€œLike a woke Brothers Grimm, his clever new spin on the ages-old changeling myth is a modern fairy tale for the Trump era.â€â€”USA Today (four out of four stars)

â€œVictor LaValleâ€™s fabulist ode to fatherhood and fairy tales offers a new take on themes as old as time.â€â€”O: The Oprah Magazine
Country USA
Manufacturer One World
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-06-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	One World
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-06-13
Format	Kindle eBook

The Changeling: A Novel

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