My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
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Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
My Brother Gary Made a Movie and This Is What Happened
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
Teague O’Kane and the Corpse
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
With Hair of Hand-Spun Gold
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
The Brother and the Bird
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
Folklore is layered. Each recounting is a revision suited to a particular time and place. I would like to believe that this process can go on, even in a society that has shifted from a tradition of spontaneous storytelling to one that privileges writing and recording.
Lydia Millet • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child