The Enchanted wrapped its beautiful and terrible fingers around me from the first page and refused to let go after the last.
The Enchanted is a magical novel about redemption, the humanity that can lie within what is monstrous, and the human capacity to transcend and survive..
She is put on the case of a man named York and as she digs into his past, the experience brings up ghosts of her own and threatens to destroy everything that she has come to know about the Enchanted place.
A woman and fallen priest haunt the prison halls--an unnamed female investigator only known as the Lady who is known for discovering information relating to soon-to-be executed inmates\' backgrounds that can be used to overturn their sentences.
Instead of focusing on the cloudy medical vines that snake across the floor, empty and waiting for the warden\'s finger to press the red buttons, our narrator sees golden horses as they run deep under the earth, heat flowing like molten metal from their backs.
The Enchanted place is a high security prison and is relayed through the eyes of an inmate on death row who escapes his surroundings by immersing himself in books, and by re-imagining the world that surrounds him.
Others don\'t see it but I do.
This is an Enchanted place. -- Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus An astonishing and redemptive novel for readers of Alice Sebold and Toni Morrison, told from the point of view of a convict whose magical interpretations of prison life allow him to find absolute joy while isolated from the rest of humanity and a female investigator who experiences her own personal salvation in her work as a death penalty investigator.
So dark yet so exquisite. . . .
A wondrous book that finds transcendence in the most unlikely of places.
The Enchanted wrapped its beautiful and terrible fingers around me from the first page and refused to let go after the last
