Name: Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems - Theodora Goss
Brand: Theodora Goss
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n2020 Locus Award finalist for Best CollectionContains A Country Called Winter, 2020 Locus Award finalist for Best NoveletteI was expecting this to be good, but it's wonderful. Seeing these pieces together makes me realize what a vivid, authentic and important voice Goss is. These are real fairytales, magical, unsettling, touching, and brilliant. I loved every word. n --Jo Walton, World Fantasy, Nebula, and Hugo award-winning author of Among OthersFairy tales are clothing, and to retell them is fashion. The fashion of these particular stories and poems is an abundance of lace, roses and porcelain contrasting with fur, snow and blood. n --Amal El-Mohtar, The New York TimesGoss takes obvious delight in reweaving classic European folk tales to reveal new, often deeply feminist, perspectives . . . This toothsome collection is best read in one go. n --Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic--while another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world. The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards, owls, trolls and a feisty, sarcastic cat. A bear wedding is cause for celebration, the spinning wheel and the tower in the briar hedge get to tell their own stories, and a kitchenmaid finds out that a lost princess is more than she seems. The sea witch reveals what she hoped to gain when she took the mermaid's voice. A wiser Snow White sets out to craft herself a