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Troll's-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. YA Fantasy book (possibly a Short Story collection) where a girl made of sugar becomes the witch in Hansel and Gretel. [s]

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Abbie (elizabethdarcy) | 2 comments I can't find this book and it's driving me crazy. I read it some time between 2012 and 2016, and it was about a man who makes himself a daughter out of sugar/candy. Eventually, he sells her (I think to a prince or king?) and she is basically tortured by being slowly taken apart and eaten. Then, she escapes, although she's left disfigured. She creates a gingerbread house at the end. Please help me figure out what this is!


message 2: by Becca (last edited Aug 22, 2023 06:19AM) (new)

Becca (beccalikesbooks) | 5545 comments Pretty sure that's 'A Delicate Architecture' by Catherynne M. Valente, which appears in the short story anthology Troll's-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales


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Abbie (elizabethdarcy) | 2 comments That's it! Thank you


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