Araby’s precise, self-absorbed narration overwhelms some details of setting and nuances of character but elicits sympathy nonetheless. The underlying questions about science and religion, which may save or destroy, and Araby’s strangely dispassionate understanding of her own depression (despite a remarkable blindness to anything else) give the tale an unexpected psychological tension.
Griffin has taken several hot tropes-dystopic setting, pretty dresses, steampunk, love triangle-and created something that, if not new, at least feels different. Multiple factions work at cross-purposes, everyone has a secret agenda and the complex plot only thickens in this riff on Poe’s short story. While her scientist father searches for a cure, Araby loses herself in a drugged haze and then finds purpose again joining a rebellion.
Griffin ( Handcuffs, 2008) forsakes realism for sultry dystopia.Īraby Worth lives in a tower soaring above a swampy, disease-ridden city.
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