Fox
Impressive and unsettling ... Horrifying yet remarkably engrossing ... The mystery provides a narrative throughline that Oates expertly uses to toggle back and forth between the past and present.
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Fox has the bones of a potboiler but is supported by the sinew of the author’s elegant structure and syntax. She draws on natural imagery and a haunting sense of the macabre, castigating the reader‘s too-easy assumptions. The book incorporates a delightfully complicated, interwoven cast of characters in small-town New Jersey; elements of class, gentrification and divided families create opportunity for misunderstanding and misdirection ... The novel is a whodunit, but to reduce it entirely to that distinction would be inaccurate ... Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling ... This is a chilling reminder that artistic mentors can be abusive in many different ways ... Fox hauntingly explores the way that beguiling figures can inspire, create and shape art.
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Effective ... A mystery at heart, but a gorgeously composed one that uses every modality to create ominous atmosphere.
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