In "The Griffin," Ruby Soames crafts a haunting and intricately layered story about memory, trauma, and the objects that anchor us to our past. The narrative orbits around young Marlena, a girl with "sharp eyes" who searches her lavish Chelsea home for clues after her beautiful, chaotic mother Virginia-Belle vanishes. What begins as a child's investigation into a disappearance unfolds into something far more sinister when Marlena discovers legal documents revealing the brutal domestic violence that preceded her mother's flight.
The titular griffin—a bronze candlestick Marlena examines that morning—becomes the story's central metaphor: a mythical guardian of treasures and keeper of secrets that surfaces again at Hugo's death scene and finally rests on Marlena's writing desk.
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