Metahphors can create meaning in surpising ways. When I deliberately looked for them while reading Invention, I was surprised at how densely, purposefully, and elegantly Kidd weaves them into her sentences. Here are a few:
- "streaked with anger" (214))
- "blistering eyes" (214)
- "edges of my mind" (214)
- "Wash of light on the harbor" (214)
- "hole in the week to squeeze through" (222)
- "color bled from the world" (229)
- "the air pulsed with the smell of it' (231)
- "feeding wood into the stove" (317)