A review by cgreenstein
The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty

Some beautiful writing, but this book has not aged well. At all. It's got the feel of a Southern fairytale (in the original Grimm brothers sense of the word fairytale, where people make odd choices and things are unexplained and animals talk and motivations are left unclear and no one is surprised by any of it), but for contemporary readers it's lost its magical feel and instead is just rapey and racist. :(