{"id":20469,"date":"2013-08-09T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=20469"},"modified":"2013-08-08T15:57:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:57:33","slug":"tender-morsels-by-margo-lanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/tender-morsels-by-margo-lanagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Margo Lanagan is an artist, and Tender Morsels<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is a potent story, rich in magic and full of feeling. Liga, with a babe in arms and another on the way \u2013 both forced on her in the most unpleasant ways you care to imagine \u2013 is rescued from her miserable life by an elemental creature, removed to her Heart\u2019s Desire: her personal heaven, a world that narrowly overlaps her real pre-industrial, vaguely-historical, sort-of-European one. The boundary is firm for a while and Liga raises her daughters in peace and safety, but eventually people start poking their way through \u2013 in both directions. What follows is a meditative, surprising, totally unique tale of self discovery, familial and romantic love, magic, fear, and growing up. It\u2019s slow paced and knotted with complex, beautiful language. It\u2019s brilliant and mature and devastating, but uplifting at the same time. Tender Morsels<\/em> is based on the fairy tale Snow White and Rose Red. It fills in the bones of that story, adding motivation to the characters and a reason to the movements of the plot, which always bends to fit the whims of the magic, and never the other way around.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cYou are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks your heart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This book isn\u2019t for everyone: the plot hinges on violence and sexual abuse, so those who are uncomfortable with those topics will be unhappy with this book. It’s written for a teenage audience, but the complexity of the writing and some mature content mean that it’s better suited for older teens or adults who read YA.<\/p>\n

Some more novels based on fairy tales<\/a>:<\/p>\n