A review by schroerjaf
Happily: A Personal History-With Fairy Tales by Sabrina Orah Mark

Did not finish book. Stopped at 12%.

I was hoping for a thought-provoking book about the relevance of fairy tales to modern life, but ended up feeling depressed. In the first two essays, the fairy tales seemed tangential. The focus was on explaining death to children after the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue and the sad life of an artist whose paintings were displayed at a Holocaust museum. When the author's grandmother died within the first few lines of the third essay, it was time for me to tap out.