I’ve read two books in the past week that I would declare to be my favorites so far…The Night Circus and The Family Fang.
Interestingly enough, both deal with the complicated relationship between parents and children as the latter attempt to extricate themselves from the situations in which they have been put by their parents.
In The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern creates a magical world based on a deadly compettion. In The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson describes a family where the parents put their children at the center of their art in the hopes that they won’t kill it. And, at the end of each, it is love that saves the children and allows them to live beyond their parents’ machinations.
