A review by gengelcox
The Boy Who Plaited Manes by Nancy Springer

4.0

A fairy tale of a magic realism type. There’s something unnatural about the boy, that is clear, but what exactly he is never comes out. Why he’s mute except for one phrase is even less clear, although the comeuppance at the end is appropriate and understandable. I would have liked it more if some of those mysteries had been revealed, for the writing and the details are spectacular.