The Changeling- Joy Williams

Confession- I didn’t write the review for this book right away, and now I don’t remember much about it. I remember the main character (Pearl) her slide into insanity and alcoholism, and the murderous little children running around the island with their precocious attitudes. The problem with this book is that I am now blending it with The Lace Reader, another book about an island inhabited by one family chock full of wacky adults and wackier kids. I remember thinking it was “a thinking book” (as in it is chock full of symbolism and the whole goal is to read in-between the lines), but it must not have made that big of an impression on me if I don’t remember it all that much, right?

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