Brenda Clews's compelling book, Fugue in Green, is a gothic fairy tale in the tradition of Marie-Claire Blais's Mad Shadows and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with a monster, abuse and ghosts haunting the stanzas. Two teens struggle with their psychotic mother as they seek asylum with their father, where psychic connections, tales of abuse and madness, and eventually a deeper love rise to the surface. Sumptuously written, this book delves into mystical visions and deep psychological in-sights into the creativew mind and ites relationship to nature, love and madness.