A young girl with the power to kill or resurrect people with her touch grows up hidden from the world until her father disappears and she must venture out into society.
A hypnotizing fairy tale that explores what it's like to live life in an unruly female body that everyone around it insists on controlling, What Should Be Wild pulsates with originality, curiosity, terror, and pleasure. With gorgeously distinct chapters that alternate between Maisie's story in the present and her ancestor's stories in the past, Fine has created layered narrative about growing up girl and becoming woman in a world that sees your physical form as a wild threat.
...a modern fairy tale from the perspective of a damsel in distress who doesn’t always realize she’s in distress ... Fine’s story is a barely restrained, careful musing on female desire, loneliness and hereditary inheritances.
With convincing intensity and a charming mix of wit, gruesomeness, magic, and romance in the spellbinding mode of Alice Hoffman, Fine offers a provocative fairy tale about womanhood under siege and one young woman’s fierce resistance.
