![]() ![]() ![]() People come to deep realizations about their lives. Just when you think nothing is happening, that things are meandering around aimlessly, things happen. Millie is a shell of a woman who slowly blossoms back into herself.Īs I said, it's a very strange book. Stan is an academic with a wandering eye. ![]() Caliban, Rachel Ingalls evokes magic with lions in Binstead's Safari.Ī strange little book, it follows Stan and Millie Binstead, an unhappily married couple, as they travel to London and then Nairobi where they begin a safari. Just like she does something magical with frogs in Mrs. The only thing I'm sure about is that Ingalls loved these characters very much: their flawed humanity shines out. It's far more open-ended and mysterious than Ingalls's Mrs. ![]() The dialog is full of yearning, sadness, missed opportunity, and unspoken things. There is a story here, but the book is more of a mood than a story, or maybe it's a couple of moods-a book of dueling feelings-of what Stan feels of what Stan's wife Millie feels. Strange repeating motifs take shape at the edges of every scene. The action is strange and vague for pages on end and then suddenly a fog lifts, and everything becomes brilliantly clear for just a moment and for just a moment a character sees, really sees, what is important to her or him and then the clarity dissipates again into a fog. The book meanders and teases, and then it grows taut, and then it snaps like a noose. ![]()
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