Category : Fiction
The amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban housewife''s affair with a frogman ...
''Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.'' Marlon James
''''Genius ... A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension.'' Patricia Lockwood
''So curiously right, so romantically obverse, that it creates its own terrible, brilliant reality.'' Sarah Hall
''A feminist masterpiece: tender, erotic, singular.'' Carmen Maria Machado
''A devastating fable of mythic proportions ... Wondrously peculiar.'' Irenosen Okojie (foreword)
Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs; her husband is unfaithful, but they are too unhappy to get a divorce. One day, she is doing chores when she hears strange voices on the radio announcing that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research - but little does she expect him to arrive in her kitchen. Muscular, vegetarian, sexually magnetic, Larry the frogman is a revelation - and their passionate affair takes them on a journey beyond their wildest dreams ... Rachel Ingalls''s Mrs Caliban is a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago
''A miracle . A perfect novel.'' New Yorker
''Every one of its 125 pages is perfect ... Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.'' Harper''s
What Readers Are Saying:
''Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written''*****
''A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for The Shape of Water.''*****
''Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb - brilliant, in fact.''*****
''Absolutely incredible. It''s weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except with lizardman sex.''*****
''One of the best tongue-in-cheek social satires that I''ve ever read. It delves into gender politics. It takes a long, hard look at mental health. It addresses female sexual freedom and agency. It asks the reader to examine what it means to be human ... Genius.''*****
''Really brilliant: a deconstruction of suburbia by way of monster movies that examines sad realities with hilarious verve ... Sometimes you need a sexy frog person to break you out of the ties that bind. ''*****
''Hooked me so deeply I picked it up and finished it the same night ... Beautiful ... Will stay with me.''*****
''What the hell just happened?''*****