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"Challenges the ableism of fairy tales and offers new ways to celebrate the magic of all bodies. In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm--as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After all, the ogre never gets the princess. And since fairy tales are the foundational m...

Amanda Leduc's new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic, is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures. Leduc lives in Hamilton, ON. From the author of 'Disfigured'. B...

In 19th-century Scotland, young Josiah is banished by his father for seeing the divine in the animals around him and sent to Siberia with a small Christian mission to purge such nonsense from his soul. Miserably scrubbing the chapel floor one night, Josiah is visited by what he t...

"The Miracles of Ordinary Men follows two surprising transformations: Sam wakes up one day to find himself growing wings, and Lilah, who has lost her brother to the streets of Vancouver, seeks penance under the harsh hand of her boss. In their search for redemption, the two hurtl...

This is the story of two unlikely dreamers: Sam, a man who wakes up one day to find himself growing wings, and Lilah, a woman who has lost her brother to the streets of Vancouver. Sam finds himself falling away from the world as he grows feathers from his back, while Lilah makes ...

Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disn...

Sam wakes to discover that he's growing wings on his back. Elsewhere, Lilah undergoes her own transformation as she seeks sexual penance from her boss. Approaching the same mysterious fate, Sam and Lilah begin to see the world differently--and to find light in the most unlikely p...