![]() ![]() The narrator, Gretel, is a lexicographer who spent her teens in foster care after she was abandoned by her mother, Sarah, who raised her hand-to-mouth on a houseboat after going off-grid with an older man she encountered on a canal towpath. The novel she has now produced is a trickier beast, remixing the myth of father-slaying, mother-marrying Oedipus to portray him as a girl in modern-day Oxfordshire. ![]() ![]() If Fen occasionally left you feeling underfed, it made you eager to read whatever Johnson wrote next. The magic realist style let Johnson approach topics such as anorexia and domestic violence from surprising angles while giving the sense that she felt the business of generating otherworldly thrills was a worthy artistic goal in itself. D aisy Johnson’s debut, Fen, was a bewitching collection of stories set in a marshland town where humans turn into animals and cannibal temptresses lure lovers to their doom. ![]()
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