Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 53 gripping tale 50 retelling 49 blackly comic 49 darkly comedic 48 serio comic 48 bitingly funny 48 darkly humorous 48 ripping yarn 47 matricide 47 absurdist humor 47 harrowingly 47 allegorical tale 47 allegory 46 Le Carré 46 fable 46 affectionate portrait 46 magical realist 46 searingly 46 gothic tale 46 fictionalizing 46 disarmingly honest 45 screamingly funny 45 humorous 45 recurring motif 45 darkly comic 45 humanising 45 morality tale 45 suspenseful thriller 45 adventuress 45 sardonic humor 45 sardonic wit 44 omniscient narrator 44 Shavian 44 satirical comedy 44 tale 44 fictionalizes 44 parable 44 grotesqueness 44 imposture 44 protagonist 44 unreliable narrator 43 Complications ensue 43 hilarious 43 picaresque 43 seriocomic 43 Riveting 43 Baba Yaga 43 Satirist 43 bracingly 43 gifted storyteller 43 Suspenseful 43 master storyteller 43 captivating 43 unflinchingly honest 43 storytelling 43 roman à clef 43 satire 43 compulsively readable 43 tragi comedy 43 Plot Concept 43 unforgettably 43 AP INVESTIGATION Cautionary 43 Chaplinesque 43 Whisky Galore 43 escapist fantasy 43 sadism 42 Retelling 42 morally ambiguous 42 suspense thrillers 42 Innocent Voices 42 riveting 42 unsentimentally 42 evocation 42 richly imagined 42 mordantly 42 bawdy humor 42 Jeannette Catsoulis 42 eminently readable 42 tragi comic 42 grippingly 42 Annie Barrows 42 Vividly 42 dramatises 42 Grimm fairy tales 42 novelist playwright 42 roman clef 42 floridly 42 murderous barber 42 Myla Goldberg 42 magic realism 42 dramatization 42 vivid 42 Mary Gaitskill 42 BOOK REVIEW 42 subtextual 41 vulgarian 41 Horrifying 41 vivid depiction 41 actor Ralph Fiennes 41 Humbert Humbert 41 Harrowing