In his sophomore novel Blood Fable, Oisin Curran sets up two interlocking, wildly different narratives. In the first, an eleven-year-old boy struggles with tensions of life with his New Age parents in a cloistered Buddhist community in backwoods Maine at the dawn of the 1980s. Wise beyond his years, the unnamed narrator observes and responds to the hypocritical actions of the adult world around him. As winter closes in on the community, the family is forced to grapple with its uncertain next steps. The “novel-within-a-novel,” narrated by the boy to his parents, allegedly contains visions of the boy’s adventures in a previous life.

Source: thestar November 24, 2017 11:26 UTC