The Changeling

This novel touches upon many different fears that parents have, but I think it is the above that I think really bothers parents the most. To be sure, they will articulate other kinds of fears, but deep down it is the fact that they ???are making all this shit up as they go along??? that they find most troubling. They cannot, or will not, turn to their own parents, out of fear that they will perpetrate their own parents??? mistakes; but in turning to other sources ??? especially the Internet ??? they open themselves up to making other kinds of mistakes. Their fear of making one single misstep in the raising of their child, of being unable to protect said child from any and all sources of harm ??? up to and including themselves ??? leads them in a downward spiral of even more mistakes, which breed even more fears. It is these fears, in the end, that lie at the heart this novel ??? that, indeed, lie at the heart of some of the oldest stories that we tell ourselves, and to our children...

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