| That night I was aboard the Kottur og Stulka preparing lutefisk for 90 burly sailors with fairy tale accents and tattoos of anchors. |
| It's a modern-day fairy tale, folks, because, you see, they did get on the telly after all. |
| Think of it as something like a cross between a fairy tale and a magic realist novel. |
| It's like that fairy tale where vipers and toads jump out of the mouth of the accursed mean little girl when she tries to speak. |
| Is it just a deeper than normal journey into adolescent angst or a modern fairy tale? |
| She uses non-realistic devices from fairy tale and a playful allusiveness to other texts in both dialogue and third-person narration. |
