![]() ![]() ![]() (Their eagerness for the child, followed by later parenting blunders, recalls the couple whose daughter is snatched in Rapunzel.) News reports of this unusual delivery, combined with Apollo’s overeager social-media posts about his son, lead a predator to their home. Although Apollo and Emma have a charmed love story, their “happily ever after” goes awry when Emma gives birth on a subway car that’s stalled between stations. Old-fashioned fables are a handy framing device for this modern tale. ![]() Victor LaValle’s novel The Changeling borrows from the fairy tale and horror genres, turning New York City into a landscape of fanciful and all-too-real dangers: witches, trolls and racist cops suspicious of black men like Apollo. The creature in the crib, she insists, is not her baby. Apollo Kagwa is adjusting to fatherhood while his wife, Emma Valentine, suffers terribly from what seems like postpartum depression. ![]()
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