The novel, Paul Murray believes, can help readers see clearly, listen with care, think hard.
is a fable, a fairy tale about fairy folk, recalled by Imelda Barnes, wife of Dickie, mother of Cass and PJ. Imelda herself was once a kind of fairy tale, the penniless beauty who married into a wealthy family, but the Barneses have fallen on hard times thanks to the recession, which is killing Dickie’s Volkswagen dealership. Now she recalls the fable, told to her by her mysterious aunt—“a warning,” Imelda thinks, “before either of them knew there was anything to warn about.
In the story, a weary traveler, stuck outside on a cold night, discovers a door in the side of a hill, and on the other side of the door, a great banquet hall filled with food and drink and music and fair-haired, blue-eyed folk who, when they see the traveler, “let out a cheer as if they have been waiting for him before they begin.” The traveler eats and drinks and dances, and when he wakes the next morning, cold and stiff on the side of the hill, he sees no sign of the door.
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