The Crane Husband
Buy Now
By using these links, you support READO. We receive an affiliate commission without any additional costs to you.
Description
World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novella
"If I had to nominate a worthy successor to Angela Carter, I would nominate Kelly Barnhill. "-Laura Ruby, two-time National Book Award finalist and author of Bone Gap
"A slim little novella that packs a narrative punch more intense than that of many books ten times its length."-NPR
Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family.
"Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters."
A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mom, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it's been just the three of them-her mom has brought home guests at times, but none have ever stayed.
Yet when her mom brings home a six-foot tall crane with a menacing air, the girl is powerless to prevent her mom letting the intruder into her heart, and her children's lives. Utterly enchanted and numb to his sharp edges, her mom abandons the world around her to weave the masterpiece the crane demands.
In this stunning contemporary retelling of "The Crane Wife" by the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, one fiercely pragmatic teen forced to grow up faster than was fair will do whatever it takes to protect her family-and change the story.
Book Information
Posts
The Crane Husband is the tale of a mother and her daughter and son in the midwestern rural USA. You are invited into their lives after the death of their father and as their mother invited the large male sized Adult Crane to live with them. Saying that he’s to be their new ‘Father’ and that she loves him but all isn’t what it seems. And you are invited to watch their spiral down into abuse and neglect at his hands.
“It’s a lot more work to cause harm to someone who mistrusts you, or fears you. Or hates you. Love opens the city gates wide, and allows all manner of horrors right inside.” Kelly Barnhill’s new novella ‘The Crane Husband’ was quick and easy read, but personally, I found it to be a very emotional read. This book is listed as General Fiction (Adult), but I would call this also a Fantasy or speculative fiction narrative as well. I will start by saying this book is beautifully written, containing elements of fairy tale like story telling. TRIGGER WARNING, the narrative contains instances of domestic abuse and child neglect.This book invites the reader on an emotional rollercoaster ride, that once strapped in your invited to witness first hand the thoughts inside the mind of 15 year old girl from midwestern rural USA. I did like this book, but for me, as a survivor of domestic, it was a very sad and emotional ride, in which the reader will feel a loss of control and helplessness as they can do nothing to help the children or mother from the Crane. I was sent The Crane Husband by Macmillan-Tor/Forge as a Arc Review Copy through Netgalley. I liked the story alot, but I wouldn’t read it again because it brought up too many negative memories and emotions. Contemporary retelling of “ The Crane Wife”, which I’ll admit I’ve never read, so I cannot say anything about how this compares to that book.
Description
World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novella
"If I had to nominate a worthy successor to Angela Carter, I would nominate Kelly Barnhill. "-Laura Ruby, two-time National Book Award finalist and author of Bone Gap
"A slim little novella that packs a narrative punch more intense than that of many books ten times its length."-NPR
Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family.
"Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters."
A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mom, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it's been just the three of them-her mom has brought home guests at times, but none have ever stayed.
Yet when her mom brings home a six-foot tall crane with a menacing air, the girl is powerless to prevent her mom letting the intruder into her heart, and her children's lives. Utterly enchanted and numb to his sharp edges, her mom abandons the world around her to weave the masterpiece the crane demands.
In this stunning contemporary retelling of "The Crane Wife" by the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, one fiercely pragmatic teen forced to grow up faster than was fair will do whatever it takes to protect her family-and change the story.
Book Information
Posts
The Crane Husband is the tale of a mother and her daughter and son in the midwestern rural USA. You are invited into their lives after the death of their father and as their mother invited the large male sized Adult Crane to live with them. Saying that he’s to be their new ‘Father’ and that she loves him but all isn’t what it seems. And you are invited to watch their spiral down into abuse and neglect at his hands.
“It’s a lot more work to cause harm to someone who mistrusts you, or fears you. Or hates you. Love opens the city gates wide, and allows all manner of horrors right inside.” Kelly Barnhill’s new novella ‘The Crane Husband’ was quick and easy read, but personally, I found it to be a very emotional read. This book is listed as General Fiction (Adult), but I would call this also a Fantasy or speculative fiction narrative as well. I will start by saying this book is beautifully written, containing elements of fairy tale like story telling. TRIGGER WARNING, the narrative contains instances of domestic abuse and child neglect.This book invites the reader on an emotional rollercoaster ride, that once strapped in your invited to witness first hand the thoughts inside the mind of 15 year old girl from midwestern rural USA. I did like this book, but for me, as a survivor of domestic, it was a very sad and emotional ride, in which the reader will feel a loss of control and helplessness as they can do nothing to help the children or mother from the Crane. I was sent The Crane Husband by Macmillan-Tor/Forge as a Arc Review Copy through Netgalley. I liked the story alot, but I wouldn’t read it again because it brought up too many negative memories and emotions. Contemporary retelling of “ The Crane Wife”, which I’ll admit I’ve never read, so I cannot say anything about how this compares to that book.