10/13/2023 0 Comments And then there were none sparknotesBaby Brian has been replaced, but she has no proof. They don’t help, the relationship gets strained and brittle as Emma begins to believe that baby Brian isn’t her baby. Apollo starts worrying that she’s got postpartum depression, and she goes and gets meds. The problem is, the pictures don’t stay on her phone. So this all looks like it’s on the up-and-up until Emma starts getting weird photos of baby Brian on her phone that neither she nor Apollo have taken. Apollo is even a ‘new’ dad, who’s totally hands-on with his infant son and takes him on his book sojourns in the baby bjorn so Emma can continue working at the library. Emma and Apollo have baby Brian, and all seems to be going the normal, exhaustive way that most early parenting does. We get a kind of idea that not all is well with Apollo’s past since his dad literally disappeared one day and Apollo has a lot of nightmares about his dad coming back and trying to take him away. The Changeling follows Apollo Kagwa, a rare books dealer, and his wife, Emma Kagwa, a librarian, as they start their family in Washington Heights, NYC. I can’t appropriately talk about this book without spoilers, so stop reading here if you think you want to give this a shot. But there was also a lot that didn’t, at least for me. And I feel guilty that I was disappointed, especially since Lavalle is a talented writer and a lot of things in this story worked really, really well. The writing was good enough that I blew through it in about 3 sittings and I wanted to keep reading, so there’s that.
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