The questions are worth slowing down to have time for unhurried reflection. The problem was not my bewilderment but my willingness to set the novel aside instead of following the path set out ahead of me by the questions. And as a myth retold (as the subtitle tells us), the story is supposed to raise questions, important questions, so that we can face them honestly. The Narnian stories are allegories Till We Have Faces is myth. What I didn’t realize is that I was closer to the truth of things than I realized. Till We Have Faces left me bewildered, with no answers, only questions. I was in college at the time and had recently read the Chronicles of Narnia, which I loved. The story was interesting enough, and well written, but I couldn’t make sense of the characters and their gods. I didn’t like Till We Have Faces the first time I read it.
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