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Synopsis
An innovative 21st century feminist bildungsroman in hybrid short fiction and lyric, H &G imagines the divergent and coalescing paths of Hansel and Gretel post-trauma, post-Witch. Beginning with Hansel’s and Gretel’s moment of triumph and return to family,the novella portrays their possible trials as they rove through the Woods of childhood intothe realms of adulthood, battling the threats of hunger, abandonment, and greed. Parttale, part autobiography, H & G also charts the progress of the female artist, as the girlreading the tale becomes protagonist and author, writing her way again and again through received story to make it new, palatable, and something whole.
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About the Author
Anna Maria Hong is the Visiting Creative Writer at Ursinus College and was a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The winner of PoetryMagazine’s 2013 Frederick Bock Prize, she has stories and poems published and forthcoming in The Nation, The Iowa Review, Fence, Green Mountains Review, Bone Bouquet, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Southwest Review, Drunken Boat, Harvard Review, Exquisite Corpse, Conduit, St. Petersburg Review, Black Clock, jubilat, Fairy Tale Review, Unsplendid, 250 Poems: A Portable Anthology, Best New Poets, The Best American Poetry, and Verse Daily. Her chapbook Hello, virtuoso! was published by the Belladonna* Collaborative in 2013.
Review
“H & G is more than a fractured fairy tale for the Doom Generation. It’s a mordantly funny dismantling of loss and abandonment, a game of Shoots & Ladders played by Angela Carter and the Woolf of Orlando, a spider that waits for its victim to stop struggling before moving in. It suggests that the great escape is just the prelude to an unhappily ever after in which old traumas collapse under the weight of new discoveries. It is a brilliant, bracing book.”
—Josh Emmons, author of Prescription for a Superior Existence and The Loss of Leon Meed
“This prose, built near and alongside one of the most primeval European tales, is full ofdelectably strong phrasal nuggets and more: Anna Maria Hong unfastens and opens theoriginal, writing in all the icy distress that we already know, and the allure of burningsugar.”—Stacey Levine
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- PublisherRed Hen Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1597097454
- ISBN 13 9781597097451
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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