Labrador

Kathryn Davis's extraordinary first novel opens as the ancient Nurse-of-Becoming fussing over her teapot, conjures two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the elder, is willful, beautiful, and wayward, and (to Kitty, the younger) the radiant center around which all things revolve. Kitty, too, is willful, [...]
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Kathryn Davis's extraordinary first novel opens as the ancient Nurse-of-Becoming fussing over her teapot, conjures two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the elder, is willful, beautiful, and wayward, and (to Kitty, the younger) the radiant center around which all things revolve. Kitty, too, is willful, but in the brooding manner of the inveterate loner, reimagining the closed world around her rather than assaulting it, as Willie does, head on. they share a rambling house in the mountains of New Hampshire with two frayed, bemused parents and the host of angels and demons who populate their childhood landscape. While the ghastly housekeeper, Mrs. McGuire, exorcises the bedsheets out back, Kitty, in the attic, listense to the beautiful, enigmatic fables with which her attendant angel predicts and interprets the tale unfolding around them. The governing spirit of this household, however, is Willie, whose betitching influence Kitty can escape only by following her itinerant grandfather to his home in the tundra country of Labrador. There, she comes face to face with the inner demons which haunt her and the realities which, inevitably, compromise, as they resolve, the purer passions and visions of the vanishing child within her. A story about the fonds that tie sister to sister, LABRADOR is a meditation on love itself, on its limits and its hidden . It is a debut of rare beauty, lyricism, and daring.