Bingo Review: Shakespeare retelling - Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
I picked this one up for my bingo reading challenge because I have seen a number of the Hogarth Shakespeare retellings floating around Booktube, and this one just happened to catch my eye at the library. This is a retelling of “The Taming of the Shrew”, and it follows Kate, a college-dropout (or more like kick-out) who is living with her dad and taking care of her younger teenaged sister. When her dad’s research assistant Pyotr finds himself in need of a green card, Kate’s dad hatches a plan to get Kate to marry him so he can stay and work in the laboratory. Kate of course takes great offense at being treated like property, but almost in spite of herself she finds that she sort of likes Pyotr. I read this one without having read the play, so I can’t say how faithful it is to the original play. I imagine it is quite faithful, because it felt a little rushed, like we just had a number of markers to hit and we needed to hit them sooner rather than later. I r...