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A book full of strange and lovely images, quirky humor, and an uncanny insight into the classic myths and fairy tales
List of contents
One
It Took Her So Long to Wake Up
Maggie Leaves the Underworld
The Rules of This Place
Maggie as Sleeping Beauty
Lilith, Happily
My Next Heart
The Maenads Go to a Meeting
Eurydice and Orpheus Stay Up Late
Penelope and Oz
Rapunzel on the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building
Leda in My Kitchen
Dangerous Electric
Eve Remembers What She Forgot
Maggie Says There’s No Such Thing as Winter
Two
Persephone Has a Secret
O
Fairy Tales
Little Red Cap At Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Maggie and I at Summer Camp
Trompe L’oeil
Un-being
Circe and the Baby
Demeter Takes A Walk
Mothers, We Are Gone
Saltwater
This Is Just An Experiment
Side Effects
Three
Filmstrip
Archaeology: A Question
Scheherazade and Salome Share a Smoke,
Backstage at the Gentlemen’s Club
Thessalonike Leaves the Water
Ariadne knits
Gretel Has a Garden Now
Hecuba and Gravity
The Wicked One At the Makeup Counter
When Maggie Holds My Daughter
Aphrodite in Drag, Outside Grace Church, Manhattan
Chimera
Multiverse
Eve and the Extinct Things
Fins
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About the author
Janet McNally: Janet McNally, teaches creative writing at Canisius College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Notre Dame. She has been awarded a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives in Buffalo, NY with her husband and three daughters.
Summary
A book full of strange and lovely images, quirky humor, and an uncanny insight into the classic myths and fairy tales
Foreword
Advance review copies to literary journals
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