![]() ![]() ![]() The girls are given roles early on their lives. For Roja and Blanca, this conflict is not only the curse, but the way they have been raised as rivals. Toxic tradition, more so than the literal curse, is the main conflict of “Blanca and Roja”, and something that pervades the life of all of the main cast. ![]() As the four of them grow closer, the curse begins to impact them all. Complicating matters is the arrival of Barclay and Page, village boys, who, for reasons of their own, have fled to the forest. As the swans’ arrival approaches, Blanca (the elder) and Roja (the younger), are left alone in their family home to await the verdict of the curse, unsure when and what will happen. It doesn’t let its well-known source material, “Snow White and Rose Red”, as well as the ballet Swan Lake, keep it from being a unique and original look at the fairytale, it doesn’t shy away from the consequences of character’s actions, but most importantly, it highlights just how hard it is to break tradition.īlanca and Roja are “del Cisne girls,” which means one day, the swans living in the forest near their home will come and transform one sister into a swan while the other remains human. ![]() “Blanca and Roja”, a magical-realism novel by Anna-Marie McLemore, defies tradition in many ways. Beyers, Editor | Septem“BLANCA AND ROJA” Blanca and Roja was published in 2018 and is Anna-Marie McLemore’s fourth novel. ![]()
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