PositiveQuill & Quire (CAN)The Book of Genesis meets \'Hansel and Gretel\' by way of Flowers in the Attic ... the narrative is shaped and driven by the rhythms of the natural world: ice breaking up in the spring, the arrival of caplin and cod, and later in the year the abundance of berries (\'a rare episode of plenty\') on which the siblings gorge ... There is an unsettledness to The Innocents, which features an intriguing ambivalence toward both the ideas that drive it and narrative in general.
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