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Hex : a Novel by Blackman, Sarah is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Hex : a Novel about?

Alice Is A Motherless Child, Born To A Motherless Child, And Raised With Neither Care Nor Grace. Her Response To This Multiple Abandonment Is A Lifelong Obsession With Her Best Friend Ingrid, Or Thingy, As Alice Calls Her, And A Sort Of Fantastic Narcissism Wherein She Figures Herself As The Nexus Of A Supernatural World She Understands Through A Blend Of Mountain Lore, Indigenous Cherokee Legend, And The Dangerous Idiom Of The Fairy-tale Girl Who Enters The Forest Despite Being Warned. The Novel Is Written In Blended Parts And Is Crafted As An Address To Thingy's Daughter, Ingrid The Second, Who Is Now In Alice's Care. Alice Attempts To Tell Ingrid The Story Of Her Life: Her Friendship With Thingy; Her Troubled Relationships With Her Father, A Small-town Sexual Troubadour; Her Stepmother, A Hard-minded Business Woman Who Treats All Interactions As Commerce; Her Marriage To Her Husband Jacob, A Silent Figure Of Tremendous Will; And Her Growing Suspicion That Ingrid Is Another Girl-child Around Whom Disaster Accumulates. Simultaneously, Alice Tells The Child The Kind Of Bedtime Stories She Herself Has Used To Make Sense Of Her World. For Alice, And Thus In Hex, The Line Between Fant

Who reads Hex : a Novel?

Author

Blackman, Sarah

Publisher

FC2, an imprint of the University of Alabama Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781573660563

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy

Rating

3.42 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13