My Love, My Love, or The Peasant Girl
Rosa Guy’s tropical retelling of “The Little Mermaid” is the gorgeous, tragic love story of Desiree, a beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself to the handsome, aristocratic young man whose life she...
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A poetic exposé of girlhood, obsession, and the CSI industry. From Snow White to the Yde Girl and Helen of Troy to JonBenét, this lurid and lyrical debut explores the transition from girlhood to...
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In Kate Bernheimer’s familiar and spare, yet wondrous world, an exotic dancer builds her own cage, a wife tends a secret basement menagerie, a fishmonger’s daughter befriends a tulip bulb, and sisters...
View ArticleHow a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales
Time Out New York, Best books of 2014 Book Riot, 2014’s Must-Read Books from Indie Presses No one has done more for the contemporary fairy tale than Kate Bernheimer. In eight new stories, she leads us...
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