A review by cookerlives
Desdemona and the Deep by C.S.E. Cooney

4.0

This story begins with the image of chemically disfigured girls in ballgowns trotting around pageant-style for Desdemona's fundraising activist mother, and from there Desdemona continues to be propelled by the contrast of the refined and the boorish, the selfish and the selfless, and comfortable and the vulnerable. Short, as novellas are, Desdemona and the Deep is filled with fantastic atmosphere and sprightly characters brought to life by prose that stops just short of poetry. Read this slowly. Savor it. Or risk finding it dull and unfulfilling.