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Happily A Personal History-with Fairy Tales Format: Hardback

Description: A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman raising Black children in the American South—based on her acclaimed Paris Review column Happily

The literary tradition of the fairy tale has long endured as the vehicle by which we interrogate the laws of reality. These fantastical stories, populated with wolves, kings, and wicked witches, have throughout history served as a template for understanding culture, society, and that muddy terrain we call our collective human psyche. In Happily, Sabrina Orah Mark reimagines the modern fairy tale, turning it inside out and searching it for the wisdom to better understand our contemporary moment in what Mark so incisively calls “this strange American weather.”

Set against the backdrop of political upheaval, viral plague, social protest, and climate change, Mark locates the magic in the mundane and illuminates the surreality of life as we know it today. In “Sorry Peter Pan, We’re Over You,” Mark grapples with a loss of innocence when her son decides he would rather dress up as Martin Luther King, Jr., than Peter Pan for Halloween; in “The Evil Stepmother” Mark finds unlikely communion with wicked wives and examines the roots of their bad reputation; and in “Rapunzel, Draft One Thousand,” the hunt for a wig maker in a time of unprecedented civil unrest forces Mark to finally confront her sister’s cancer diagnosis and the stories we tell ourselves to get by.

Revelatory, whimsical, and utterly inspired, Happily is a testament to the singularity of Sabrina Orah Mark’s voice and the power of the fantastical to reveal essential truths about life, love, and the meaning of family.

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Book Title: Happily : a Personal History-With Fairy Tales

Number of Pages: 224 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2023

Item Height: 1.1 in

Topic: Women, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Parenting / Motherhood, Literary, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Literary Criticism, Family & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

Item Weight: 10.3 Oz

Author: Sabrina Orah Mark

Item Length: 7.8 in

Item Width: 5.4 in

Format: Hardcover

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