![]() ![]() ![]() This little novella is so simply about love and forgiveness, but I could probably spend hours talking about it. It's really rather sweet and admirable.which is the whole point of a fairy tale: to model the values we'd most like to see in ourselves and others. The hard times don't completely break them. But it maintains its fairy tale format by 1) maintaining the fast-paced storytelling and 2) keeping this silly little family together. Fear, infidelity, drug abuse, death, a fucking AIDS epidemic, etc. Halfway through the book though, real life starts to intrude on the fairy tale. She is not supposed to be real and grounded. This is set up in reverse in where only good things happen to Weetzie Bat from the start, her life is so amazing, so magical and filled with nothing but love. ![]() They then go on a journey and things usually get better from there. Most fairy tales start with some awful thing happening to the protagonist. It's basically a modern day fairy tale, but structured in reverse. I've been a Francesca Lia Block fan for years without having ever read what is probably her most popular book, Weetzie Bat. ![]()
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