Only her father and some of his household staff know she’s his daughter he keeps that fact hidden from the world at large. When Snow White is born, her mother dies. In the lamplight her hair had the very color of coal… Her dark mouth was a cut garnet, her skin rich copper, her eyes black diamonds…”Īlthough she rejected his advances repeatedly, she was eventually left with no choice but to become his wife. H immediately conceived a starvation for the girl not lesser in might than his thirst for sapphires or gold. The way it’s described, it’s more lust than love he craved her as something he could possess. She tells us how her father, known only as Mr H, an exceedingly rich mine owner, falls for her mother, a Crow woman with the name Gun That Sings. The first part of the story is told in first-person, with Snow White as our narrator. I haven’t read many retellings of Snow White and I was excited by this one, especially as it’s set in the Wild West, one of my favourite settings.
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