"I love fairytales. Love them desperately. But I've long been tired of simple retellings. Veronica Schanoes instead mines their patterns and dark gaps, and pulls something new from them with her teeth. These are fire in your hands."
Publisher Tor.com
Publication Date 2021-03-02
Section New Hardcover - Fiction / Science Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Story B.
Format Hardcover
ISBN 9781250781505
In the tradition of Kelly Link and Karen Russell, a stunning debut collection full of fearsome fairy tale prose born in the dark forests of Europe and raised in an America full of hunger, rage, and other demons
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 the 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 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