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Rachel Ingalls: Mrs Caliban (1997, Harvard Common Press)

In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to …

Working on her formula

Much preferred her other novella, “In the Act”. This has many of the same building blocks, primarily a woman in a loveless marriage and a dated setting (1960s?). This time, the love interest is a “frog man”, and like “The Shape of Water”, they get it on: all over the house! Some lovely stretches of writing, but the ending was disappointing.