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Little Nothing, by Marisa Silver

Little Nothing - Marisa Silver

There’s nothing wrong with Pavla. Rather, there’s a problem with everyone who meets her in Marisa Silver’s Little Nothing. Pavla was born somewhere Bohemia before the First World War. The people in her small village are highly superstitious and no one knows what to make of a dwarf. For the rest of her life, people will try and transform her into what they think she ought to be. Silver tells her tale as a grittier version of a fairy tale in which elderly parents pray for a child, after which nothing goes right...

 

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley for review consideration.