I was visiting my thin, tan, sixty-something non-native-of-Singapore aunt of exceptional math skills who had made her fortune, from near enough to nothing, in spandex and sequin fashions. When I was younger, we had called her Tina Turner because her styling was similar—also, she had once seen Tin...
They feature animals, or monsters, or, occasionally, children behaving like animals or monsters. Books for adults almost invariably feature adults. The crystal child My mother tells me that people tell her, when she is out with the baby, that the baby is a crystal child. S...