A review by brie_zimmermann
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

3.0

  • right off the bat man is acting like he owns his wife, like she’s one of his characters he can control, saying he “fixed her” to never complain 
  • mary seems like a force of nature and i love it; fox is probably intrigued because she can’t be controlled/he is not in control of what’s happening
  • really interesting premise but the story itself is hard to follow, which i know is kind of the point but even 70% of the way through i still barely have an idea of what’s going on, what’s real and what’s just in fox’s head, who mary and fox each are in each of the stories, etc. 
  • almost more like a compilation of related short stories than a novel
  • he’s chasing whichever women he doesn’t feel he has control over, switched bn mary and daphne based on how much control he feels he has
  • it’s giving coriolanus