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tintededges's review
Check out my full review here: https://tintededges.com/2021/12/22/foxspell/
stefhyena's review
4.0
Rubinstein's characters are always so relatably flawed, so set in the real world of poverty and difficult family relationships- she navigates class and gender sensitively, without white-washing the reality or stereotyping she manages to have people we can recognize from contemporary Australian society. This book I liked even more because the setting was so obviously South Australia and I related to much of the negative culture in it.
It's a sad book- I wouldn't necessarily think every child had the stomach for it but I am really glad I read it. The foxes in the book are problematized rather than demonized and it seems the feral animal is a metaphor for other dilemmas without easy answers. To be in touch with the earth in the modern sense can be to have a bond with feral plants or animals after all.
The family in the book is warm yet flawed.
So much to love
It's a sad book- I wouldn't necessarily think every child had the stomach for it but I am really glad I read it. The foxes in the book are problematized rather than demonized and it seems the feral animal is a metaphor for other dilemmas without easy answers. To be in touch with the earth in the modern sense can be to have a bond with feral plants or animals after all.
The family in the book is warm yet flawed.
So much to love
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