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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