![]() ![]() Gun That Sings doesn’t want to marry this white man, but after a few not-so-subtle threats about the safety of her people, she relents. H “had a witch’s own knack for sniffing out what the earth had to give up” (10), and Gun That Sings has the kind of beauty that seems to appeal to his business interests: “her hair had the very color of coal Her dark mouth as a cut garnet, her skin rich copper, her eyes black diamonds for true.” (10-11). H sees a beautiful Crow woman named Gun That Sings and decides her wants to marry her. ![]() In North America’s Old West, a wealthy mine owner known to us as Mr. ![]() She takes the basic elements of the tale – the stepmother, the mirror, the huntsman, the heart, the seven dwarves – and reworks them into a story about racism, love, and mothers. Valente reinvents it in ways I could never have imagined. I’ve never found the story of Snow White particularly compelling, but Catherynne M. This is as much my analysis of the story as it is a review, so it contains some spoilers, although I have not discussed the specifics of the ending. ![]()
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