Wild Swan

Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, or this true. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, Michael Cunningham.