❥ Raina – our Rumplestiltkin story, the most elusive character, the most understanding member of the group– we don’t get her story until much later, but it’s a story being peddled around and no one really seeing you for you. ❥ Ruby – our Little Red Riding Hood, the archetype of the she asked for it mentality, someone who’s life has spiraled but because she’s self aware it’s fine, right? The most outspoken and angry and crass of the group, but one who’s story we’ve all heard before. I’d also like to point out that she is in a sapphic relationship and that self sabotage is very real. ❥ Gretel– of the Hansel and Gretel tale, the take on her story in which she came from poverty and a rough childhood, another take on the theft of narrative, except maybe her own brain is coping in ways that are fantastical in nature. ❥ Bernice – the girlfriend of “Bluebeard”– an eccentric entrepreneur, fat and highly insecure about it, her narrative of being in everyones shadow, of her voice being erased in her own narrative gave me a sense of empathy in ways that are more personal than I was expecting. I’m going to start off with our characters before anything else, because in order to understand the story, you have to know the people telling the story: Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Published: May 31st 2022 What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other?ĭark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women. Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed. And Raina’s love story will shock them all. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy.
Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma.
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