Mary is a pre-teen girl who feels abandoned after her mother’s death and her father’s difficulty communicating with her. At this point, Michigan in 1979, we meet our first real narrator (other than the doctor who delivered him), Mary Penlore. Weylyn’s parents die when he is young, still in kindergarten, and when the state comes to take him, he runs away into the woods and lives with the wolves. Weylyn can speak with animals, can make things grow, can influence the weather, all of them amazing abilities, but it just feels… normal. From the night of his birth in 1968, he’s been different, and throughout his story – which we see through the eyes of those around him – that fact is proven over and over again. This story, however, seemed more about finding the ordinary in the extraordinary, and the result was a beautiful story that just didn’t click with me.īeasts starts slowly, with the birth of one Weylyn Grey. Magical realism is a fascinating world to play in, and is, at its heart, about finding magic in everyday life. Have you ever read a book and thought man, the writing is beautiful, the story is interesting, why isn’t it working for me? That was my experience with Ruth Emmie Lang’s Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance.
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