A review by drewsof
The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentner

5.0

4.5 out of 5. Zentner's prose flows so easily that I defy a reader not to be wrapped up in the story within a few pages, even if it doesn't seem like their cup of tea. He keeps just to one side of magical realism, instead aiming for the other 'm' word: myth. And how better to tip the hat to King Lear and to Shakespeare and other greats (Melville certainly had some influence here too) than to acknowledge the way we (meaning humanity) create and adapt stories and legends and people? I wish the Kings Family good fishing and happy days - and the same to anybody with the sort of family who inspires myths, too.

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