A review by kate56
Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates

4.0

Bellefleur, the mansion, is Bellefleur the family, is Bellefleur the story: a sprawling, fantastical caricature of an American dream/ nightmare; characters and settings stretched to their own hyperbole bringing their darknesses into the light; a pervasive meanness and decay that disturbs; and yet an attraction that grabs a reader and pulls her through the myriad of seemingly disconnected bits to a comprehensive whole, but leaves her wondering…