The True Deceiver

I finished this book last night, and I am left here ruminating in my bookcoma. It’s a story about two women - a Big Bad Wolf and a Flowery Rabbit - one is deceitful, another is gullible. When the two characters meet, they force change onto themselves, and they become the persons that they despise.

Jansson’s delivery is compact and masterful; such complex character study in just 180 pages of controlled prose. I call this nothing but perfection!

Here's a passage that I like the most:

"I remember the dog at home, when I was a girl; the one that killed chickens. They tied a dead hen around his neck and he carried it around with him all day until he just lay there unmoving with his eyes shut in a morass of shame. It was cruel. There's nothing so hideously easy as giving someone a bad conscience..."

WOW! 😍😍😍