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sylviruk 's review for:
Everything Under
by Daisy Johnson
Johnson's first story collection is populated by characters and settings that owe a big deal to magic realism, but they are more than anything an excuse -Johnson's excuse- to talk about issues such as domestic violence, abuse, identity, gender.
And now she goes and publishes this wonderful monster, this beautiful reinterpretation of Sophocle's Oedipus Rex only here the clairvoyant who brings the prophecy is a transgender woman, the hunter is a young woman who works as a lexicographer as a way to find her place in language, and the kid who tries to escape his fate -only to find it later- is someone unable to express his truth, until it's too late. In Johnson's appropriation of this tale, the king has a boat and the queen is a demential being who loses and gets lost.
This is a novel that hides one too many monsters. This is a novel about finding and losing your family while losing and finding yourself. It is about how society pushes you constantly to the verge of a canal you are afraid to cross.
And now she goes and publishes this wonderful monster, this beautiful reinterpretation of Sophocle's Oedipus Rex only here the clairvoyant who brings the prophecy is a transgender woman, the hunter is a young woman who works as a lexicographer as a way to find her place in language, and the kid who tries to escape his fate -only to find it later- is someone unable to express his truth, until it's too late. In Johnson's appropriation of this tale, the king has a boat and the queen is a demential being who loses and gets lost.
This is a novel that hides one too many monsters. This is a novel about finding and losing your family while losing and finding yourself. It is about how society pushes you constantly to the verge of a canal you are afraid to cross.