![]() ![]() Hamlet is Hanalee Denney, grieving for her black father’s recent death and unsettled by the hasty marriage of her white mother, Greta, to white family friend and town doctor Clyde Koning. But Winters gender-swaps the lead, translating Hamlet to a biracial teenaged girl, Claudius to a potential member of the Ku Klux Klan, and Elsinore to a sleepy, poverty-ridden town in Prohibiton-era Oregon. When YA authors seek a female protagonist for a Hamlet appropriation, they usually turn to Ophelia. ![]() The Steep and Thorny Way (2016) by Cat Winters joins a long list of recent Hamlet re-imaginings published for teens, including John Marsden’s Hamlet (2008), Dot Hutchinson’s A Wounded Name (2013), and of course Lisa Klein’s often-cited Ophelia (2006), to say nothing of Ryan North’s chooseable path adventure To Be or Not To Be (2013). ![]()
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