![]() ![]() ![]() But Machado follows the seep of such stories far below the level of consciousness. That these fairy tales functioned as prisons for women-taught them to be princesses lest they become crones, to stay in their towers for fear of what lies outside-is a truth earlier generations long ago divined. ![]() This book is hardly the first to rewrite the old tales from a feminist perspective, a project that has attracted writers from Anne Sexton to Angela Carter, and from Helen Oyeyemi to Leslie Jamison. Machado deftly repurposes more traditional imagery, too, including witchy sisters, magic ball gowns, and-the collection’s most self-aware narrator-a woman with a green ribbon tied around her neck. In one story, a police detective is haunted by ghosts with bells for eyes in another, a survivor of rape acquires the ability to read porn actors’ minds. ![]() In eight searingly original stories, Machado uses the literary techniques of horror and science fiction to expose the truth about our modern parables: that they’re as grotesque and enchanting as any classic fairy tale. ![]()
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