![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Henry would be autistic if his strangeness and language difficulties weren’t conceived as fantastical abilities, and Ava is born with wings. In the metaphor-made-flesh style of the genre, both children wear their oddness on their bodies. Viviane pines away from blighted love while raising its fruit: twins Ava and Henry. Ava’s grieving grandmother Emilienne sees ghosts and ignores her daughter, Viviane. Surrounded by death and despised by their neighbors, the Lavender women live in seclusion even from one another. Instead, the novel opens with Ava’s great-grandmother in France and follows the family through the ill-fated romances and personal calamities that chase them to Manhattan and eventually Seattle. Lyrical magical realism paints four generations of women with tragic lives until a shocking violation fixes everything.įirst-person narrator Ava, who isn’t even born until nearly halfway through the novel, never becomes the main character. ![]()
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