Fairie on the Hudson

Tara Isabella Burton’s latest novel, Here in Avalon, starts like a fairy tale: “Once there were two sisters.” Cecilia is a fantasist, beautiful with searching eyes, always starting but never finishing, a musician who dropped out of Julliard to chase her ever-elusive grail. Cecilia wears heels but cannot walk in them, so the sound of her clacking shoes announces her arrival. “Cecilia always sounded,” her sister thinks, “like a revolution.”