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Yolen, Jane

Snow in Summer

243 pp. | Philomel | November, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-399-25663-9 $16.99
(2) YA Yolen's "Snow White" retelling is set in Depression-era West Virginia. There's a calculating Stepmama and a magic mirror; the magic is tilted toward Pentecostal snake handling and country beliefs. The details of Appalachia, including narrative language both poetic and specifically mountain, are so authentic and true that, far from being a European-tale offshoot, this branches out into its own American inflorescence.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2012

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