Vincent was born and raised on the tiny island of Caiette in British Columbia. This narrative of how Millay remade herself serves as a talisman for Vincent throughout her life. Vincent’s mother tells her daughter that Millay transformed herself “by sheer force of will” from an impoverished girl brought-up in New England’s backwaters to an acclaimed poet at the center of New York City’s art scene. Vincent, the female protagonist of The Glass Hotel, is named after the poet Edna St. This process of becoming someone else, the provocation to transform, and the price it exacts are matters that Mandel captivatingly explores in each of her novels including her latest, The Glass Hotel. Her characters are shapeshifters who create new identities, sever ties to home, and slide into worlds very different from those into which they were born. John Mandel is a portraitist of reinvented lives.
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