An incredibly dry and hilarious, and deeply thoughtful, retelling of “Beowulf” from the perspective of Grendel. This is NOT like those books like “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs”, but instead is more like Wide Sargasso Sea or other retellings of colonial stories. And in a lot of ways, this book is like a post-colonial retelling of Beowulf. Grendel is a being, an incredibly intelligent, powerful being in the world when he comes across men (otherwise he knows the dumb animals, his chaotic and […]