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Touched
(Hardcover)
Carolyn Haines; Cover design or artwork by Nikkita Bhakta
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When we came to America, we brought anger and socialism and hunger.
We also brought our demons. "One of the most powerful voices in
speculative fiction."--Catherynne M. Valente In Burning Girls and
Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with
stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way
toward the center. This debut collection introduces readers to a
fantasist in the vein of Karen Russell and Kelly Link, with a voice
all her own. Emma Goldman--yes, that Emma Goldman--takes tea with
Baba Yaga and truths unfold inside of exquisitely crafted lies. In
Among the Thorns, a young woman in seventeenth century Germany is
intent on avenging the brutal murder of her peddler father, but
discovers that vengeance may consume all that it touches. In the
showstopping, awards-finalist title story, Burning Girls, Schanoes
invests the immigrant narrative with a fearsome fairytale quality
that tells a story about America that we may not want--but need--to
hear. Dreamy, dangerous, and precise, with the weight of the very
oldest tales we tell, Burning Girls and Other Stories introduces a
writer pushing the boundaries of both fantasy and contemporary
fiction. With a foreword by Jane Yolen
It's a year and a half after the events of "Anarchy," and the world
is alive with magic.
On a tiny archipelago out of sight of the rest of the world lives
Rory, a ten-year-old boy. He and his mother and a handful of
survivors live an exhausting and precarious existence, entirely
isolated. The sea is alive, and angry. Every man Rory can remember
has been drowned. Everyone knows he'll be next.
One night, for the first time since the world changed and the curse
descended, strangers appear on the island. They're on their way to
England, seeking a powerful magic ring. And one of them seems to
know Rory by sight...
Caught up in their quest, Rory enters an England of terrors and
marvels, at the heart of which lies a place where journeys
unimaginably longer and older than his will reach their end:
Pendurra.
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