![]() ![]() LaValle had a quest of his own in writing The Changeling: He had recently become a dad, and he needed a role model. Each successive challenge demands prowess he didn’t know he had-and changes our perception of who a hero can be. ![]() But when his wife commits a primeval act of violence against their baby boy and disappears as if by some dark magic, Apollo must leave behind the ordinary and embark on an Olympian quest that leads him deep inside a cursed New York. When the story opens, Apollo is a regular joe just trying to keep it all together, supporting his family through a hardscrabble used-book enterprise. With his genre-bending novel, The Changeling, Victor LaValle updates the epic narrative for the 21st century, telling the tale of Queens native Apollo Kagwa’s journey from typical Facebook-oversharing dad to slayer of flesh-and-blood demons. Throughout Western mythology, white men with swords have been the heroes while the rest of us watch, oohing and aahing, from the sidelines. ![]()
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