Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions)
Rachel Ingalls, Irenosen Okojie
Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions)
Rachel Ingalls, Irenosen Okojie
The frogman was still there, sitting on the corner of her bed, looking towards her…
Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs. Her infant son, unborn child, and dog have all just died; her husband is unfaithful; her only friend is an alcoholic. One day, the radio announces that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research - but little did she expect him to arrive in her kitchen. Muscular yet gentle, vegetarian, and excellent at housework, Larry the frogman is a revelation: and their passionate affair goes beyond their wildest dreams…
Reissued with a foreword by Irenosen Okojie, Rachel Ingalls’ Mrs Caliban is a surrealist masterpiece: as dazzling today as it was four decades ago.‘
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