![]() ![]() She gets a haircut, buys new clothes, begins going out and about on her own. During their stopover in London, she begins to reinvent herself. He doesn’t want her along - she’s dowdy and boring, he thinks, and she’ll cramp his style - but she is uncharacteristically insistent. Stan is an anthropologist, and when he decides to head to Africa to study a lion cult, Millie decides to go as well. Caliban” last fall.) This book, too, has an unhappy housewife at its center - Millie, a passive, worried woman married to a philandering mansplaining guy named Stan. ![]() Less well-known - and perhaps even better - is Ingalls’ 1983 novel, “Binstead’s Safari,” republished in February by New Directions. The fact that the woman’s lover is a 7-foot-tall green frog-like man makes him exotic but not bizarre. It is entirely believable, the way Ingalls tells it - matter-of-fact, occasionally funny, romantic, tragic. Caliban,” her 1982 novel about a deeply unhappy housewife who falls in love with a giant sea creature. Rachel Ingalls, who died in March, is perhaps best known for “Mrs. ![]()
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