Hamnet

Gorgeous, engrossing, and thought-provoking. A fictional speculation on the connection between the real-life death of Shakespeare’s son, Hamnet, and his subsequent writing of Hamlet, which dramatized the relationship between a father and son in death. My only criticism is that the book’s idealization of Anne Hathaway felt overdone, but even that idealization was enjoyable if I let go and allowed myself to partake in the modern fantasy of the perfectly wise healer-witch-rebel woman.