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

2.0

I can't get over how disappointing this was. I love fairy tales and retellings of them, this book had my name all over it, but out of the 40 stories I only really liked 6. Most of them were too gritty and bleak, often vulgar, there was nothing magical or warm, something I associate with fairy tales, about them. Some of them were too confusing and others simply boring. If you enjoy retellings in the vein of [a:Michael Cunningham|1432|Michael Cunningham|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1398891471p2/1432.jpg], you might like it more than I did.

The 6 stories I found enjoyable:
- Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child by Joy Williams
- The Erlking by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
- Dapplegrim by Brian Evenson (my absolute favorite)
- Ther Mermaid in the Tree by Timothy Schaffert
- The Color Master by Aimee Bender
- First Day of Snow by Naoko Awa