Jenna's Reviews > Poor Deer

This little fable was unlike anything I have read, in the best possible way. It reminded me of the “color fairy” books (The Green Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, etc.) that I read as a child, infused with our contemporary understanding of things like neurodiversity and how The Body Keeps the Score. Poor Deer herself/itself is like Shame Anthropomorphized, one of the best - personifications (?) - of childhood-based shame that I could hope to encounter in fiction. My only complaint about this book is that I could have read about 400 more pages of it.