Bound

In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child’s feet so that she alone might marry well.

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  1. By WOW Currents » Fairy Tales: Zero Tolerance? on September 28, 2009 at 12:24 am

    [...] the book Bound, by Donna Jo Napoli, arrived in my office I grabbed it to read immediately. I had previously read [...]