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THE CHARMED WIFE
From the award-winning author comes a sophisticated literary fairy tale for the 21st Century, in which Cinderella, years after her marriage, is on the brink of leaving her supposedly perfect life behind.
Cinderella wants her prince charming dead. Thirteen and a half years ago, their marriage was meant to be the conclusion to her story, the fairy tale ending she deserved after years of servitude and sorrow. Yet after playing the role of dutiful wife, she finds herself left with an indifferent husband, two children she rarely sees, and a life that has not turned out as expected. Faced with limited options, Cinderella seeks out a witch known for her magnificent curses and reputation for helping spurned women. With her husband's life hanging in the balance, and her own reality crumbling along with it, Cinderella quickly finds herself reevaluating the fairy tale life she's been led to believe in.
As her reckoning begins, her tale treads the line between magic and reality, expanding into a rich tapestry that exquisitely combines the worlds of the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault with contemporary Manhattan, and revealing the uneasy truths hidden in the stories we love. Endlessly surprising and wildly inventive, THE CHARMED WIFE twists time and place, fantasy and reality, to conjure a world unlike any other, one that questions everything we think we know about romance, marriage, and the very nature of storytelling.
Olga Grushin is the author of Forty Rooms, The Line, and The Dream Life of Sukhanov. Born in Moscow, Grushin moved to the US at age 18 and writes in English. Her books have been translated into 17 languages. She lives outside Washington, DC.
As her reckoning begins, her tale treads the line between magic and reality, expanding into a rich tapestry that exquisitely combines the worlds of the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault with contemporary Manhattan, and revealing the uneasy truths hidden in the stories we love. Endlessly surprising and wildly inventive, THE CHARMED WIFE twists time and place, fantasy and reality, to conjure a world unlike any other, one that questions everything we think we know about romance, marriage, and the very nature of storytelling.
Olga Grushin is the author of Forty Rooms, The Line, and The Dream Life of Sukhanov. Born in Moscow, Grushin moved to the US at age 18 and writes in English. Her books have been translated into 17 languages. She lives outside Washington, DC.
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Published 2021-01-12 by Putnam |