Mrs. Caliban

Mrs. Caliban

<p><strong><strong>Now back in print, <em>Mrs. Caliban</em> is “totally unforgettable” (<em>The New York Times Book Review</em>) and “something of a miracle” (<em>The New Yorker</em>)</strong></strong></p> In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research… Reviewers have compared Rachel Ingalls’s <em>Mrs. Caliban</em> to <em>King Kong</em>, Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, the films of David Lynch, <em>Beauty and the Beast</em>, <em>The Wizard of Oz</em>, <em>E.T.</em>, Richard Yates’s domestic realism, B-horror movies, and the fairy tales of Angela Carter―how such a short novel could contain all of these disparate elements is a testament to its startling and singular charm.