The Night Tourist has a lot of great elements: for example, it's a double retelling of the Orpheus myth, it refers to the Latin of Ovid's Metamorphoses at a number of points, it shows a real affection for New York City, the ghost of Dylan Thomas is a character, and the deceased Tennessee Williams writes a bad play in the underworld. Marsh even gives the Eurydice characters more agency than in other renditions of the myth. But the way in which Marsh has given the Eurydice characters agency becomes (to me) problematic: they are the agents of their own deaths who come to regret their actions. By the end of the novel, traditional associations are mostly reinforced, with female characters being dead, more isolated, and less efficacious than male characters, and male characters being rewarded with rediscovered relationships and renewed interest in life.