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kymme 's review for:
Some Kind of Fairy Tale
by Graham Joyce
A thoroughly intoxicating story. Despite the title I kept expecting a rational, non-fairy-tale explanation for everything, or for the book to pop into a more fairy tale-like tale, but what I expected is not what the book is--it's meant to upset expectations a bit, expectations of genres and expectations of characters and what we do and don't, or think we do and don't, know. The family scenes are the most poignant to me, and I particularly loved the thread of the story surrounding a teenage boy's accidental shooting of a neighbor's cat and his sad-comical-ineffective attempts to hide the fact and squash his guilt. Those who don't much like fairy tales will find much "real life" to love in this book, and those who don't much like real life will find a little fantasy to take the edge off.