![]() In the present, Gretel looks after her ailing mother, Sarah, who raised her half-feral on the canals, then abandoned her. ![]() Mud, strong currents, domineering mothers, the marshy grind of poverty-these all capture something of what Fate must have felt like to the ancient Greeks, and they populate the river communities that hug the junked canals where Everything Under plays out. As in her début story collection, Fen, Johnson dredges the uncanny from her watery, liminal landscapes-in Fen, the East Anglia marshes here, the Oxford canals-not so much blurring the modern and the folkloric as stewing them together, into one shadowy, sinking, wonderful mud. ![]() ![]() Daisy Johnson’s Oedipus retelling, Everything Under, roots around for modern inevitabilities that still have that fatalistic feeling, even in contemporary Britain. ![]()
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