Waiting for Bluebeard

Waiting for Bluebeard tries to understand how a girl could grow up to be the woman living in Bluebeard''s house. The story begins with a part-remembered, part-imagined childhood, where seances are held, and a father drowns in oil beneath the skeleton of his car. When her childhood home coughs up birds in the parlour, the girl enters Bluebeard''s house paying the tariff of a single layer of skin. T...