07-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Once upon a time there lived a hungry girl and a monstrous mother
The best way — perhaps the only way — to read Lucy Rose's beautiful, terrifying first novel, 'The Lamb,' is as a modern fairy tale. Still, anyone expecting the anodyne comforts and familiar magical-realist trappings associated with that genre will be disappointed, if not outright horrified, by the novel. Despite its contemporary setting, Rose's story seems drawn directly from those collected by the Brothers Grimm.
