title: Tales of Innocence and Experience : An Exploration
author:  Eva Figes 
description: This is a captivating exploration of the relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter. Alive to the special sweetness of the relationship, Figes also explores the darker side of childhood. How in fairy tales such as "Snow White", "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Hansel and Gretel" difficult emotions like jealousy and anger, fear of death and abandonment are evoked and transformed by the storyteller's art. It is at this point that the author evokes the fairy tale of her own privileged Berlin childhood which was brutally shattered when her family escaped from the Nazis to England, leaving behind the much loved grandparents, who perished in a Polish camp. But a new child around allows the grandmother the chance we all seek to sneak back into the garden of innocence.
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  OR
  
  THE
  
  UNEXPECTED
  
  VIRTUE
  
  OF
  
  BEING
  
  SWAGGY
  
  J.T. HOLDEN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Text copyright © 2016 by J.T. Holden
  
  All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976,
  no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in
  any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior
  written permission from the publisher.
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  either are the product of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously,
  and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business
  establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  ISBN-13: 978-1-937696-19-1
  
  ISBN-10: 1937696197
  
  First Digital Edition
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For Becky—
  
  for keeping my id in check
  
  and for setting me on the right path
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  in memory of innocence,
  
  before everything went viral
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  [PROLOGUE](index_split_005.html#filepos3762)
  
  [THE NIGHT BEFORE](index_split_006.html#filepos18339)
  
  