This one is a little hard to review for me. It is not linear very on purpose. The novel's relationship to time is largely the point, but it makes for a difficult reading experience. I appreciate the art of form that is employed here. It's imaginative, and I've never read anything quite like it.

The narrator here is wonderful, but the book itself might be too complex and referential for an audio version for me. Without being familiar with Kabbalah and minimally so with the Zodiac, it was clear I missed a lot that would have informed my reading.

If you love this book already and are waiting for a reprint or an audio edition, this is lovely.

The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington is the rarest kind of novel: a novel that makes magic paradoxically real and alien to us, that grants the experience of true mystery.

Not for the faint of heart, this is a novel deeply entrenched in the world of surrealism, alchemy, and Jewish mysticism. Its symbolism is obscure and often opaque to a casual reader. While there is always a thread of grounded narrative running through the endless dreams, visions, and imagistic digressions of The Stone Door, this is a novel of expression and aesthetic rather than a novel of plot. Nevertheless the result is a deeply moving journey that can have deep resonance across a variety of interpretations.

The audiobook edition, narrated by Lorna Bennett, provides an engaging reading of the text which brings unique life to its strange characters and world.

Thank you Tantor audio and netgalley for the advance listening copy!