Lauren Slater’ 2004 book, Opening Skinner’s Box, raised a storm when she wrote about the experiments neobehaviorist B.F. Skinner ran on his infant daughter by confining her in a box. Deborah Skinner herself rose from the annals of science to defend her father and condemn Slater. In Blue Beyond Blue, Slater moves into the fiction she’s been accused of writing, offering a set of adult fairy tales that explore the psychology of human relationships. At once amusing and deeply fascinating, the stories reveal that many of us are caught up in archetypes beyond our control, no matter how hard we try to write our own stories.
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