Little Beast (Riot in Your Throat, 2023)

From the opening poem “Wolf,” Sara Quinn Rivara’s Little Beast reads like the fairy tales we know flipped on their heads. And I don’t mean the watered-down versions. I mean the Brothers Grimm versions. The fairy tales elders once told children to scare them into behaving. Only Rivara is a witch burned at the stake returning to teach women how to misbehave, thus coming home to themselves.