Snow White Learns Witchcraft

This is a beautiful collection of poems and stories deconstructing familiar fairy tales and reweaving them into mostly modern stories. At first I was a little put off by the poetry, but I got over that as I realized what the author was doing. I was never a real appreciator of poetry except in the classroom where we analyzed them. These poems however are almost like flash fiction. They are very easy to get into, with vivid language and often a wry sense of humor. The stories are longer and much the same, though some are not necessarily happy endings. This book won the 2020 Mythopoeic Award, having some very tough competition from Jo Walton and Alix E. Harrow.

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