`There is always enough for everyone, if you show it properly, or if it has been shared properly before you got then. There is enough food, enough love, enough homes, enough time, enough crayons, enough people to be friends with each other´.
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In the re-told tale of Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella goes to the party, loses her crystal shoe, is found by the prince - Prince Nevermind who doesn´t want to be a princee - but she doesn´t want to be a princess. She wants to open a cake store. She also made peace with her stepsisters, Paloma and Pearlita. The wicked stepmother remains thouh, as a counter-part to the dairy godmother who brought Cinderella to the ball in the first place.
Cinderella Liberator was my first re-told tale so far. I´ve read the Charles Perrault´s original story long time ago, without getting too much into it. It´s a fairy tale that I couldn´t replicate or identify in my immediate environment. No offense, but will take any time the prince instead of the cake store.
In this story, the CinderELLA - her declared name at the end of the story - she is a ´liberator´ aka ´someone who helps others figure out how to be free´. Perfectly fine with that, but I just love original stories more - with or without Cinderella. Stories that may set me or Cinderella or the prince who doesn´t want to be one, or the vilain, free. Each generation its own stories, don´t have to necessarily be write old ones.
Although I understood the message, I am happy to read stories and tales - new and inspired by old - but please give me the chance as a reader to set - or not - the characters free.
Worth mentioning though the classical illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
Rating: 3 stars
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