Undermajordomo Minor

The Fairytale Redux: On Patrick deWitt’s “Undermajordomo Minor”
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The Fairytale Redux: On Patrick deWitt’s “Undermajordomo Minor”

The last thing the world needs is another reimagining of the fairy tale. It has been done from every angle: straightforward, post-modern, and (yawn) from the villain’s perspective. So it was with some wariness that I approached Patrick deWitt’s new novel, Undermajordomo Minor, a fairy tale of sorts that follows young Lucien “Lucy” Minor as…