Valente writes images that are incredibly resonant with my memory. One of my absolute favorite things at my last house-the woodwork was a heavily varnished oak-is the way the setting sun would turn the living room into a buttery glow. The glass was so full up of dark, it looked like someone had tripped over the night and spilled it all into that mirror." -from Snow White Bites Her Own Reflection It did not show the forest or the meadows. The glass did not show the buttery light of the house behind me. Where does the anxiety, the joy, the tears come from? My body perhaps knows truths my head won't realize. My body is my truth, and I have laid it out as evidence on the table of my father's reputation, for by know you may have guessed my next revelation." -from The Creation of Snow White "A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know. Take fairy tale mythology, the sideways structure of Native American folklore, a Wild West setting, weave it through with themes on race and gender and wrap it in Valente's wordsmithing, and you'll have Six-Gun Snow White. Filled with fascinating glimpses through the fabled looking glass and a close-up look at hard living in the gritty gun-slinging West, this is an utterly enchanting story…at once familiar and entirely new. After being hidden for years, a very wicked stepmother finally gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have. This girl has been born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child. Although her mother’s life ended as hers began, so begins a remarkable tale: equal parts heartbreak and strength.
Insert into this scene a plain-spoken, appealing narrator who relates the history of our heroine’s parents-a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him. Picture instead a masterfully evoked Old West where you are more likely to find coyotes as the seven dwarves.
A New York Times bestselling author offers a brilliant reinvention of one of the best-known fairy tales of all time with Snow White as a gunslinger in the mythical Wild West.įorget the dark, enchanted forest.
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