A stunning new collection of short fictions from the World Fantasy Award- and Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon.
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning first collection of acclaimed short fictions, teeming with uncanny characters whose stories unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original.
When Mrs.
Sorensen's husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in ``Mrs.
Sorensen and the Sasquatch.
`` In ``Open the Door and the Light Pours Through,`` a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved.
``Dreadful Young Ladies`` demonstrates the strength and power--known and unknown--of the imagination.
``The Insect and the Astronomer`` upends expectations about good and bad, knowledge and ignorance, love and longing.
The World Fantasy Award-winning novella The Unlicensed Magician introduces the secret, magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead.
By an author hailed as ``a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman`` (Minneapolis Star Tribune), the stories in Dreadful Young Ladies feature bold, reality-bending fantasy underscored by rich universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope.
Algonquin Books Dreadful young ladies and other stories, hardcover/kelly barnhill
