![]() ![]() She is obsessively in love with the crane, while he turns increasingly abusive. And so it is that the young girl, now 15, keeps the books of account, pays the bills, handles marketing for the art work, fixes what needs fixing while her mother produces the tapestries and cheese that keep just enough money flowing in.Īt least the mother does so until she comes home one day with a crane who wears a hat, spectacles and shoes with holes made by his sharp talons. But before he passed, he instructed his daughter in how to use various tools to keep the household going. The father died when the narrator was nine and her brother Michael just an infant. The family of the young narrator has held onto the last farmhouse, if not the land, and ekes out a living through the mother’s fantastical tapestries and a sideline of cheese-making. A distant conglomerate has bought up all the farmland to convert it into a massive factory of fields. The Crane Husband takes place in a near-future farming community where all the farming is done by remotely controlled drones. It’s also about the transformative power of art and the darkness of obsession. The Crane Husband is a somewhat darker tale, as much about abuse as the determination of a young girl to survive and become her own person. ![]() When Women Were Dragons offers a brighter side to metamorphosis, as the dragons turn out to be a loving substitute family. In both stories a young girl is left, though under very different circumstances, to act as the responsible adult and raise a much younger sibling. ![]()
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