And cooing that she just likes eating children, Kate Duchêne's witch suggests a Mrs. Lovett for the pre-teen brigade: Cannibalism, it seems, knows no age boundaries.
So the book is a tract, like Swift's "A Modest Proposal," which argues that Ireland's widespread poverty could be relieved if the Irish would start eating children.
WOLVES have a reputation for dressing in drag, eating children and turning humans into were-creatures who howl at the moon.
Really, it should be in the depths of an enchanted forest and Kathryn should be a witch, casting spells and eating children, in order to continue her marvellous lonely life.
The other we might call McCarthy world, from Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road – which is set in an impossibly hideous post-apocalyptic world, where everything is dead but humans, who are reduced to eating children.
The baby yellowtail arrived, and Dancy raised his chopsticks in delight: "Carrying on the theme of eating children!" Tad Friend has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998.
