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by Gregory Maguire · Wicked Years series
Maguire reimagines the Wizard of Oz from the perspective of Elphaba, the misunderstood girl who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. This darkly political retelling explores themes of oppression, propaganda, and moral ambiguity in a totalitarian Oz, questioning the nature of good and evil. A sophisticated deconstruction of a beloved fairy tale that asks who writes history and who gets called wicked.
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