{"id":43030,"date":"2017-11-09T11:12:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=43030"},"modified":"2017-11-09T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T18:51:25","slug":"vanishing-princess-stories-jenny-diski-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/vanishing-princess-stories-jenny-diski-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vanishing Princess: Stories by Jenny Diski [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-42574 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/08\/Vanishing-Princess-by-Jenny-Diski-on-BookDragon-532x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/08\/Vanishing-Princess-by-Jenny-Diski-on-BookDragon-532x800.jpg 532w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/08\/Vanishing-Princess-by-Jenny-Diski-on-BookDragon.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennydiski.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jenny Diski<\/a>\u00a0is renowned across the pond, her defiant treatise against her terminal cancer,\u00a0<i>In Gratitude,\u00a0<\/i>published just before her 2016 death is, ironically, what earned her substantial stateside acclaim. Now available posthumously to U.S. readers is her spectacular 1995 collection of bizarre-to-rueful-to-stunning stories, bookended by two princesses living (and reading) in towers: the titular \u201cvanishing\u201d princess, who learns about food, time, and mirrors; and the \u201cOld Princess,\u201d whose long life is spent waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Another royal becomes \u201cQueen\u2013meaning Mrs. King,\u201d as Diski alchemizes Rumpelstiltskin\u2019s tale into \u201cShit and Gold,\u201d a wicked feminist reclamation. A single story, \u201cStrictempo,\u201d gets plainly autobiographical as it portrays a 15-year-old expelled from boarding school and returned to negligent parents. A writer has an afternoon tryst with a stranger after discussing the \u201cleaper\u201d who\u2019s disrupted rush-hour subway traffic.<\/p>\n<p>A woman manifests her lifelong goal of the perfect, all-day bath. A housewife enjoys a \u201cfilthy\u201d affair, even as \u201clife went on as normal.\u201d A toddler\u2019s mother goes on a Caribbean vacation only to realize her husband is a dull disappointment. A teenager\u2019s mother matter-of-factly talks blow jobs and doing drugs with her 13-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Memorable girls and women \u2013 damaged, truculent, curious, stalwart \u2013 occupy Diski\u2019s pages, claiming space, agency, and well-deserved attention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Vanishing-Princess-Jenny-Diski\/pid=8937840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Booklist<\/em>, November 1, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Although Jenny Diski\u00a0is renowned across the pond, her defiant treatise against her terminal cancer,\u00a0In Gratitude,\u00a0published just before her 2016 death is, ironically, what earned her substantial stateside acclaim. Now available posthumously to U.S. readers is her spectacular 1995 collection of bizarre-to-rueful-to-stunning stories, bookended&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,114,6,60,6535,7],"tags":[89,6608,6668,438,36,51,7593,129],"class_list":["post-43030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-british","category-fiction","category-nonethnic-specific","category-repost","category-short-stories","tag-anthology-collection","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-folklore-legend-myth","tag-girl-power","tag-identity","tag-jenny-diski","tag-mother-daughter-relationship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Vanishing Princess: Stories by Jenny Diski [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/vanishing-princess-stories-jenny-diski-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Vanishing Princess: Stories by Jenny Diski [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"*STARRED REVIEW Although Jenny Diski\u00a0is renowned across the pond, her defiant treatise against her terminal cancer,\u00a0In Gratitude,\u00a0published just before her 2016 death is, ironically, what earned her substantial stateside acclaim. 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