Is it Alice’s miserable, sexist, condescending, unfaithful husband, John? Or is it Joseph, an oily grifter who meets Lucy when she first arrives in Tangier? Is it Alice? Is it Lucy? Is it Alice’s rich, chilly aunt?Īt first, Lucy earns some sympathy after she barges in on Alice and John like Blanche DuBois she is sure to suffer the same fate, since John is such a creep. It is best not to spoil the story and reveal the identity of the baddie. The other protagonist is her former Bennington roommate, Lucy Mason, who’s shown up out of the Mediterranean blue on the doorstep of Alice and her husband’s home. Why, Ripley even rhymes with one of the protagonists’ names: Alice Shipley. Its villain is a psychopath who would give Tom Ripley-not to mention Hannibal Lecter-pause. And that’s a good thing.Ī reader could be forgiven for imagining Tangerine as a Patricia Highsmith spinoff- Mr. A novel should stir the emotions, and Tangerine, the debut novel from Christine Mangan, does just that.
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