A review by lauraportalupi
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer

4.0

I found many of these contemporary tales delightful. Like other reviewers, I found a wide range in the stories' appeal, though I imagine much of that is due to personal literary preferences. My favorites from this collection are:

"I'm Here" by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

"Snow White, Rose Red" by Lydia Millet

"The Erlking" by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

"Halfway People" by Karen Joy Fowler

"The Mermaid" by Timothy Schaffert

"What the Conch Shell Sings When the Body Is Gone" by Katherine Vaz

"Teague O'Kane and the Corpse" by Chris Adrian

"Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay" by Jim Shepard

"My Brother Gary Made a Movie and This Is What Happened" by Sabrina Orah Mark

"The Color Master" by Aimee Bender

"Psyche's Dark Night" by Francesca Lia Block

"First Day of Snow" by Naoko Awa