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There is beauty, accompanied by sorrow, in this tale. The fantasy and the reality in Alex Jeffers' world of men and fairies merge into one until the reader becomes immersed in his characters' lives -- pieces of life reflecting the passing of time as they encounter the light, dark, and all the grey areas in between, including love, passion, and loss. Key to this fantasy is the door which becomes a symbol for choices and a bridge between an ever evolving world and an unchanging one, between the pe...
two conflicting feelings at the conclusion of this book: overwhelming confusion and overwhelming grief.
That Door is a Mischief may have one foot planted in Fairyland, but it has a very human heart… his characters never become caricatures. They never lose their essential human qualities, so they never seem less than universal. And he never loses sight of his characters. In the last installment, “His Husband,” the number of offspring by marriage and/or relationships threatens to overwhelm, but Jeffers reins it back just in time, delivering a finale as dramatic as it is satisfying. That Door is a Mi...
I have a not-so-secret love of linked short fiction. I love revisiting the same place, the same character, or some other connected thread that runs through a series of short stories. Whether episodic and related or just different moments in a life, it seems to me that short fiction is one of the best ways to give you a sense of a whole that feels so much larger than the sum of its parts.That Door is a Mischief is a brilliant whole made of magnificent parts.Now, allow me to display my bias comple...
Alex Jeffers is an experienced, Lambda-Literary-Award-winning author who is the grandson of American poet Robinson Jeffers. Alex can write, often quite beautifully. This tale of a fairy changeling son of divorced gay fathers starts off with our protagonist as a teenager and looks at first like it’s going to be a Young Adult novel. However, once Jeffers has his hero Liam Shea fart out a glass dildo and jack off onto the face of a dead lover, I think he’s lost the chance for a YA classification. T...
While travelling, when I should have been giving all my attention to my loved ones, I sat down for a bit and started reading That Door Is a Mischief by Alex Jeffers. I meant only to distract for an hour, to start something I could pick up before bed later, but instead I read the whole book, cover to cover, in a day, to the detriment of everything I should have been doing.I don’t know if I can be objective about this book. Like all of Jeffers’ stories I was pulled in to a bubble universe that I n...
