Staff Pick
Dorothy is not the least bit prepared to hear the urgent news on the radio: a monster has escaped a research facility in her town. She is definitely unprepared to see the monster walk through her door. A celebration of female sexual liberation, Mrs. Caliban is one of the strangest books I've ever read, but it is so well done, you can't help but root for the monster. One of the oddest love stories out there, it brought out sharp pains of empathy in me, much like Frankenstein did. So lovely. Recommended By Dianah H., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
I loved Mrs. Caliban. So deft and austere in its prose, so drolly casual in its fantasy...-- John Updike
Synopsis
Acclaimed as among the twenty greatest post-war American novels, Mrs. Caliban has all the elements of a late-night movie: unnatural sex, a demon lover, a fatal car chase, a jasmine hint of M. Butterfly, and a dash of X-Files. A mesmerizing tale that haunts and transports the reader long after the last page.