Ghost people -- The nightmares of horses -- Rat-a-tat-tat -- The bottom line -- The evil stepmother -- Sorry Peter Pan, we're over you -- Children with mother don't eat houses -- I am the mothers of this eggshell -- Rumple. Stilt. And skin. -- The currency of tears -- A Bluebeard of wives -- I am the tooth fairy -- The silence of witches -- Bah, humbug -- Fairy tales and the bodies of black boys -- Sleeping with the wizard -- The fairy-tale virus -- Fuck the bread, the bread is over -- I'm so tired -- Rapunzel, draft one thousand -- All the better to hear you with -- Time to pay the piper -- U break it we fix it -- We didn't have a chance to say goodbye -- ~Hope.docx -- Ever after -- After ever.
Summary:
"The literary tradition of the fairy tale has long endured as the vehicle by which we interrogate the laws of reality. These fantastical stories, populated with wolves, kings, and wicked witches, have throughout history served as a template for understanding culture, society, and that muddy terrain we call our collective human psyche. In Happily, Sabrina Orah Mark reimagines the modern fairy tale, turning it inside out and searching it for the wisdom to better understand our contemporary moment in what Mark so incisively calls "this strange American weather." Set against the backdrop of political upheaval, viral plague, social protest, and climate change, Mark locates the magic in the mundane and illuminates the surreality of life as we know it today. In "Sorry Peter Pan, We're Over You," Mark grapples with a loss of innocence when her son decides he would rather dress up as Martin Luther King, Jr., than Peter Pan for Halloween; in "The Evil Stepmother" Mark finds unlikely communion with wicked wives and examines the roots of their bad reputation; and in "Rapunzel, Draft One Thousand," the hunt for a wig maker in a time of unprecedented civil unrest forces Mark to finally confront her sister's cancer diagnosis and the stories we tell ourselves to get by"-- Provided by publisher.
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