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Once Upon a Time Challenge: The Robber Bride

Once Upon a Time Challenge: The Robber Bride

Once Upon a Time: The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood     In a word: Wow! I’m dropping this book into the fairy tale category thanks in part to a wonderful post by Buried in Print who first put me onto the notion that Atwood is playing with fairy tale motifs. What absolute fun it was to discover a hidden (much like the dense forests of fairy tales) level of meaning beneath this literary novel. Even the title is an allusion…

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