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You think you know her story. You’ve read the Brothers Grimm, you’ve watched the Disney cartoons, you cheered as these virtuous women lived happily ever after. But the lives of real princesses couldn’t be more different. Sure, many were graceful and benevolent leaders—but just as many...

Fans of women's memoirs about second acts, self-reinvention, and finding strength after divorce will connect deeply with Deb Miller's honest, witty account of what happens when the fairy tale falls apart—and real life begins. Deb was raised to believe in Prince Charming, permanence, and the promise that love guaranteed a happy ending. Faced with the collapse of the story she'd built her identity around, she had to decide: rewrite the narrative or remain stuck inside it

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD 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” “One of the most...

What if you have everything you always wanted, but it doesn’t feel like it’s supposed to? And what’s up with all those people who should be behaving differently? Jane Garland was insurmountably busy pretending to be a good adult and never quite making it to the end of her to-do list. In the future, when all her work was done, she would finally be content. The problem being that it was always just today.

In fairy tales...the godmother never dies.