Handsomely evoking a landscape filled with castles, trolls, shamans and spellbound princes, the story will exercise its audience's imagination. Looking at the Wikipedia entry on it, I can see some of the differences between East and the original (oh yeah, I went to grad. If you are, congratulations, you are far smarter than I am). Pattou unfolds her story slowly and carefully, luring readers across many miles with the brave and determined Rose. East by Edith Pattou is a retelling of the fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon (if you aren’t familiar with it, don’t worry, neither was I. Nevertheless, Rose is "different" in many ways, from her purple eyes to her passion for weaving, which leads her to make a cloak patterned with a "wind rose" (a mapmaker's symbol indicating the direction of the winds)She also seems to attract the attention of a white bear, and when the bear finally approaches her, offering to make her poor family prosper and to restore her ill sister's health if Rose will come away with him, she finds the offer impossible to resist. Lushly rendered retelling of "East of the Sun and West of the Moon." In an old Norwegian village, a highly superstitious mother tries to protect her youngest child, Rose, from a dire prophecy as the various characters take turns narrating the story, it is readily apparent that no one else takes the superstitions seriously.
Readers with a taste for fantasy and folklore will embrace Pattou's (Hero's Song)
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