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Starred Review on July 1, 2016 | Fiction
When Samuel Andreson-Anderson was growing up, his mother, Faye, drew on folklore related by her Norwegian-born father to tell him about the Nix, a water spirit in the form of a white horse that carries too-trusting children to their deaths. The moral, she explained, is that "the things you love the most will one day hurt you the worst." That proves prophetic, for one day she simply walks out. Now a middling English professor and novelist manqué who seeks e...Log In or Sign Up to Read More