![]() As Rose’s heart continues to urge her into exploration and adventure, the lie begins to fester in her family.įollowing the fairy-tale’s plot, the family falls upon hard times until one day a massive polar bear appears at their door. And so Rose grows up unaware of the lie of her life–that she was not born an East baby, as her mother insists. Rose’s mother refuses to have a North child, having received a prophecy that any North baby she has will die crushed by snow. A made-up superstition regarding the ‘birth direction’ of babies supposedly foretells the kind of personality and life the child will have. It does some new things, however, particularly adding some culture to the main character’s origin. ![]() Obviously, as a retelling, this story broadly follows the plot of “East of the Sun West of the Moon”. ![]() There is apparently a sequel in the works. ![]() A retelling of the fairy tale “East of the Sun West of the Moon”, straddling the line between children’s and YA. ![]()
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