What-the-Dickens

Call them tooth fairies, call them skibbereen. Whatever you call them, be prepared to realize they are real or are they?

That conundrum is at the heart of this cleverly constructed story-within-a-story by Gregory Maguire, whose novels Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister have lured adults back into fairy-tale worlds. What-the-Dickens: The Story of…