Book 54: "The Stolen Child" by Keith Donohue
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kittiwake"I'm Henry Day," I croaked, my voice raw with suffering.
"Hello, Aniday." Onions smiled, and everyone laughed at the appellation. The faery children began to chant "Aniday, Aniday," and a cry sounded in my heart. From that time forward I was called Aniday, and in time I forgot my given name, although on occasion it would come back part of the way as Andy Day or Anyway. Thus christened, my old identity began to fade, much as a baby will not remember all that happened before it is born. To lose one's name is the beginning of forgetting.
"The Stolen Child" is the story of two changelings, and how they come to terms with their new lives over three decades. One is Aniday, who was stolen from his family in the late 1940s and went to live in the woods with the changeling band, waiting for his turn to become human again. The other is the changeling who takes over his life as Henry Day, having lived as a changeling since being stolen from his German immigrant family nearly a century earlier).
Sad and atmospheric and unexpectedly good.
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"Hello, Aniday." Onions smiled, and everyone laughed at the appellation. The faery children began to chant "Aniday, Aniday," and a cry sounded in my heart. From that time forward I was called Aniday, and in time I forgot my given name, although on occasion it would come back part of the way as Andy Day or Anyway. Thus christened, my old identity began to fade, much as a baby will not remember all that happened before it is born. To lose one's name is the beginning of forgetting.
"The Stolen Child" is the story of two changelings, and how they come to terms with their new lives over three decades. One is Aniday, who was stolen from his family in the late 1940s and went to live in the woods with the changeling band, waiting for his turn to become human again. The other is the changeling who takes over his life as Henry Day, having lived as a changeling since being stolen from his German immigrant family nearly a century earlier).
Sad and atmospheric and unexpectedly good.
