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A review by missbookiverse
Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold by Imogen Hermes Gowar, Naomi Booth, Emma Glass, Irenosen Okojie, Daisy Johnson, Natasha Carthew, Eimear McBride, Liv Little, Mahsuda Snaith, Kirsty Logan
3.0
[3.5 stars]
I found the framing of this collection to be very enjoyable (retelling traditional folktales) and I liked that "traditional" did not entail "white, male, and hetero." Some stories stayed within the old-fashioned setting of the originals, but I preferred the ones that updated the scenery and put a modern, forward-thinking twist on the plot. My favorites include: Sour Hall (a f/f couple moves to an old spooky farm) by Naomi Booth, Between Sea & Sky (an archeologist bears a baby boy with a high affinity for the sea) by Kirsty Logan, The Dampness is Spreading (an old midwife longs for a child of her own) by Emma Glass, and The Holloway (a family suffers under an alcoholic father/husband) by Imogen Hermes Gowar.
I found the framing of this collection to be very enjoyable (retelling traditional folktales) and I liked that "traditional" did not entail "white, male, and hetero." Some stories stayed within the old-fashioned setting of the originals, but I preferred the ones that updated the scenery and put a modern, forward-thinking twist on the plot. My favorites include: Sour Hall (a f/f couple moves to an old spooky farm) by Naomi Booth, Between Sea & Sky (an archeologist bears a baby boy with a high affinity for the sea) by Kirsty Logan, The Dampness is Spreading (an old midwife longs for a child of her own) by Emma Glass, and The Holloway (a family suffers under an alcoholic father/husband) by Imogen Hermes Gowar.