Narrated in turns by Henry and Aniday, The Stolen Child follows them as their lives converge, driven by their obsessive search for who they were before they changed places in the world. Yeats, the faeries attempt to entice the child away 'for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. As the changeling Henry grows up, he is haunted by glimpses of his lost double and by vague memories of his own childhood a century earlier. They leave one of their own to take his place, an imposter who must try–with varying success–to hide his true identity from the Day family. The changelings rename their captive Aniday and he becomes, like them, unaging and stuck in time. The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age seven by a band of wild childlike beings who live in an ancient, secret community in the forest. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own.” “I am a changeling-a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. The introduction, discussion questions, author biography, and suggestions for further reading that follow are designed to enhance your group’s discussion of Keith Donohue’s imaginative and unique tale, The Stolen Child. a luminous and thrilling novel about our humanity." - The Washington Post We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own p. Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnapped by fairy changelings living in the dark forest. A haunting fable about identity and the illusory innocence of childhood that moves from small-town America deep into the forest of humankind's most basic desires and fears. Read The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue available from Rakuten Kobo.
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