This dizzying tale is ultimately a story about family and the unfathomable secrets of the people we love. The book is suspenseful, fantastic, and human enough to believe in. Apollo then begins a journey that takes him to a forgotten island in the East River of New York City, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest in Queens where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever. In The Changeling, Apollo Kagwa becomes a father, and then must battle with parenthood and pressures on his marriage, issues of abandonment, and the literal and figurative monsters inadvertently invited into his life by way of social media.

His quest begins when he meets a mysterious stranger who claims to have information about Emma's whereabouts. Thus begins Apollo's odyssey through a world he only thought he understood to find a wife and child who are nothing like he'd imagined. Before Apollo can do anything to help, Emma commits a horrific act-beyond any parent's comprehension-and vanishes, seemingly into thin air. Disconnected and uninterested in their new baby boy, Emma at first seems to be exhibiting all the signs of post-partum depression, but it quickly becomes clear that her troubles go far beyond that. 'If the literary gods mixed together Haruki. One man's thrilling journey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after seemingly committing an unforgiveable act of violence, from the award-winning author of The Devil in Silver and Big Machine. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improbabilia, he is just beginning to settle into his new life as a committed and involved father, unlike his own father who abandoned him, when his wife Emma begins acting strange. THE CHANGELING: a novel, by Victor LaValle. 'If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison.the result would be Victor LaValle.' -Anthony DoerrĪpollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have haunted him since childhood. THE CHANGELING: a novel, by Victor LaValle

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