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Six-Gun Snow White

Catherynne M. Valente (2013)

SubgenreFairy Tale Retelling
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages153 (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age18+
Goodreads3.63/5 (4541)

Content levels

ViolenceStrong
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageStrong

Synopsis

A retelling of "Snow White" set in the "gritty gun-slinging west." Her parents were a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him; her mother's life ended as hers began. Our narrator, born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child, is hidden for years by a very wicked stepmother who gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have. Now she's a gunslinger in West that's wilder than any you can evoke....

Tags

Weird WestHistorical FantasyLiterary FantasyWestern