![]() ![]() “Why did he do it?” ask the reporters, but Hazel doesn’t care: it doesn’t matter how Ansel felt. She’s the twin of Jenny, the girl who married Ansel Hazel watches as her sister is consumed by her relationship with Ansel, helpless as it destroys her. “Until the time came, Lavender did not understand what it meant to walk away from a thing she’d grown from her own insides.” Lavender’s story is bruising, and brave – but so is Hazel’s. Instead, she tells us about his mother, Lavender, who was 17 when Ansel was born and subject to a world that slowly closed around her in the Adirondack mountains. His crimes may be horrific, but Kukafka isn’t out to explore the origin story of the murderer. The clock is ticking towards Ansel’s death as he plots his escape, and gloats over the “Theory” he will leave behind for the world to read. ![]()
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