With sections entitled “First Comes Love,” “Then Comes Marriage,” etc., The Changeling lulls us right into the space of our brains where we first encountered nursery rhymes. “Parenthood is a story two people start telling together” – Victor LaValle, The Changeling Be careful, though, because I got so into the book that I woke up at 4am today to read the last half of this book-it’s that engrossing. There will be spoilers in this review, and it breaks my heart to mess with your experience of the book unfolding, so go read it now. There’s a lot more to love about this book-from the writing to the incorporation of classic myths to the explorations of friendship and what it’s like to start a family with not enough support-but Apollo helped me appreciate even more deeply my husband as a partner and a father. Victor LaValle’s portrayal of Apollo Kagwa as a deeply believable New Dad in The Changeling was the first reason I fell in love with this book. Even the empathetic fathers on TV and in books are too often hapless doofs, when they even exist.
But I don’t see a lot of that in popular culture, yet.
Five and a half years into this parenting thing, I see around me the beginnings of a new generation of dads-men who are in touch with their own feelings and who understand their role in a family is not just to provide, but also to nurture.
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