PositiveThe New York TimesRebecca Solnit’s Cinderella Liberator applies subtle shifts and gentle questions to recast this familiar story into a tale that is fundamentally about freedom ... While the narration very occasionally gets more heavy-handed than it ought to, largely the tone remains clear, deft and purposeful, as the form requires. The decision to use Arthur Rackham’s original cut-paper silhouette illustrations was a brilliant choice. And for the true book nerd, Solnit’s backmatter explores the deeper meaning of the Cinderella story, and the light it sheds on the plight of the downtrodden and subjugated even today ... This is, hands down, a wonderful book — one that even the jaded reader will clasp upon completion with a contented sigh.
