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The novel interleaves the narrator’s history with snippets of the island’s.

Tracing Lucy’s history with him while the two try to solve a dark mystery, “William!” intricately interleaves past with present.

Another chapter on the problems besetting small-town America interleaves a profile of a steakhouse employee in Nelsonville, Ohio, who ran for office with the rise and fall of Bon-Ton department stores in Pennsylvania.

He interleaves poetry and literature — the terrain of memory and myth — with modern geology, ecology and physics, and nature narrative.

Donald T. Sanders, the director, interleaves Hans’s monologues and the puppet interludes with music, mostly from Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten, neither an Andersen contemporary.