This presentation was about an hour long. During this time, the author was introduced as well as her literature. Kate Bernheimer is a fiction writer who mixes fairy tales and folklore with reality in her books. She is currently working on the third installment of her trilogy. She read excerpts from the first two books The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold. The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold will be the third book, as she is the third sister. Kate Bernheimer has other fictional works and is the founder of The Fairy Tale Review, a journal.
To be honest, this presentation was a little weird to me. The samples of her books showed stories of a young girl suffering at the hand of her sister. The older one, Merry, seems cruel and slightly twisted in her thinking. Some of the stories seemed random in the sense that without knowing the fairytale they came from, I didn't understand why certain things were said or done. For example, I don't understand the meaning of the story where all the girls were flowers but only one was allowed inside. Without any references to reality, I don't know what purpose this story was meant to have. Maybe it is just one of the books that is difficult to understand without having the entire story.
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