September 24, 2014
Binding Traditions
A review of Erin Bow’s Sorrow’s Knot (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013) By Derek Newman-Stille A great deal of fantasy is focused on the hero’s narrative, masculine figures in a masculine, patriarchal society. Erin Bow creates a female dominated society. Women have powers that males don’t – the power to bind spirits with string. In a place that is filled...