Tender Morsels
core novel 2008 Tender Morsels
Record
| First published | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.60 (6,001 ratings, collected 2026-08-29) |
| Page count | 436 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780375843051 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Tender Morsels, published by Margo Lanagan in 2008, is based loosely on the Brothers Grimm tale Snow-White and Rose-Red. Liga is a traumatized fifteen-year-old girl who has suffered severe abuse at the hands of those meant to protect her, and who, in her desperation to escape her circumstances, finds herself transported into a magical, sheltered refuge cut off from the ordinary world. There she raises two daughters in safety and peace, shielded from the dangers and cruelty that marked her own earlier life, for years undisturbed by the world she left behind. As the barrier separating her sanctuary from reality gradually begins to weaken, figures and dangers from the outside world start to find their way in, threatening the protective isolation Liga has built for herself and her daughters and forcing a reckoning she has spent years avoiding.
Where it sits
- Universe: Tender Morsels
- Series: Tender Morsels core; position 1 of 1 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Margo Lanagan
Awards (verified)
- World Fantasy Award (Best Novel), 2009: won
- Ditmar Award (Best Novel), 2009: won
- Michael L. Printz Award (Honor Book), 2009: honor
Notes
- From the series record (Tender Morsels): Single stand-alone novel; treated as its own one-book series per this project's standard single-work convention.
Sources
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