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Burning girls and other stories / Veronica Schanoes.

by Schanoes, Veronica L.

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Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2021.

Women -- Fiction.

Marginality, Social -- Fiction.

9781250781505 (hc.)

336 p. ; 22 cm.

Among the thorns -- How to bring someone back from the dead -- Alice: a fantasia -- Phosphorus -- Ballroom blitz -- Serpents -- Emma Goldman takes tea with the Baba Yaga -- Rats -- Lost in the supermarket -- Swimming -- Lily Glass -- The revenant -- Burning girls.

The author crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center. 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 title story, "Burning Girls," Schanoes invests the immigrant narrative with a fearsome fairytale quality that tells a story about America 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.

Fantasy fiction.

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