Norah labiner biography of william hill

Maybe there are only a few good stories. Maybe we’ve heard this one before. Maybe there’s comfort in the familiar even in fiction, and we like a character that reminds us of someone else we’ve met before.

Norah labiner biography of william hill

The idea of enduring mythologies intrigued Norah Labiner so much that her fourth novel, “Let the Dark Flower Blossom” (Coffee House Press), revisits characters and themes we may have met before, somewhere else — but not in this combination, not told like this.

Spun out over a period of decades, Labiner’s tale first draws a set of compelling characters, and then connects them.

Maybe we’ve seen these types before, but we haven’t seen them connected in quite this configuration. Even better, the reader gets to unravel a series of dark secrets and try to solve a murder, or two.

“I really wanted to write a story that was about old stories, about the kind of myths that are told over and over again — Leda and the Swan, the story of the girl, the birth of the divine child,” says the a