Thorn anna burke7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() The Huntress, Isolde, is Rowan’s opposite. Her sharpness, anger, and pride have a depth that’s uniquely teenaged and completely human. ![]() It does all of this within a framework of castles, rugged landscapes, and forbidding enchantments. The story delves into clothing as self-presentation, the release from bearing children, the work of self-reliance, reckoning with a family or past that no longer fits, the give and take of true partnership, and the interlinked importance of self-knowledge and love. Building on the tradition of Beauty and the Beast, Thorn gives young women all the leading roles: heroes, villains, and lovers. But in Anna Burke’s Thorn, freedom isn’t the same as mercy, and Rowan must learn to bear its weight.īurke is adept at imbuing a deep fairy tale with social relevance. ![]() When the Huntress arrives on the heels of her father’s hunting party demanding a rose for a rose, what’s monstrous suddenly looks like freedom. Her mother is dead, her father is on the run from his creditors, and Rowan is powerless to do anything but assent. It is said that “the Huntress rides out when the sun is at its farthest and Winter has her jaws buried deep in the heart of the warm, green world,” but Rowan is skeptical about this-and everything else about village life. ![]()
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