loppear reviewed Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey
flawed myth
4 stars
I think I liked this more than the bookclub did, but I'm still torn. The mythic fairytale element, or stark allegorical discontinuity with reality, is well done but written in a maybe-lazy-maybe-brilliant way that leaves it mostly outside any character's grasp. Captures a flawed rural struggle to thrive whether in or out of society's framework that feels representative of a mythos of Alaska.
I think I liked this more than the bookclub did, but I'm still torn. The mythic fairytale element, or stark allegorical discontinuity with reality, is well done but written in a maybe-lazy-maybe-brilliant way that leaves it mostly outside any character's grasp. Captures a flawed rural struggle to thrive whether in or out of society's framework that feels representative of a mythos of Alaska.