Starting with flashbacks from childhood, two brothers emerge from childhood, markedly different. Trauma, guilt, stories, histories, unspoken truths, lead to different lives, both marked by the past. How they move forward in life and in their family comes to unfold, much as the metamorphosis that is studied by one brother. Lyrical, leisurely, mystical, elegant. A flight of fancy well told. Time well spent.
Review of Son of Monarchs
