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BURNING GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES
By: Veronica Schanoes
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June 2022
On Sale: June 14, 2022
336 pages
ISBN: 1250847281
EAN: 9781250847287
Kindle: B088TRNCWZ
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Hardcover (March 2021)
Multicultural Contemporary Fiction
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.
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