Feather Crowns | Social Concerns
As in her previous fiction, Mason's Feather Crowns is a novel preoccupied with questions of fate, as her main character struggles to make sense of her destiny as the mother of America's first known set of quintuplets. The plot focuses upon quirks of fate, and how Christianna Wheeler, the novel's protagonist, handles hers. While the quintuplets act at first as a catalyst to strengthen the love Christie feels for her farmer husband, James, public reaction soon transforms the normality of their family into a freak show. Mason faces issues of public reaction which can convert a normal,...
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