What I Didn't See
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A collection of stories includes tales about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, a rebellious teen facing torture in a rehab facility, and a mother who invents a fairy-tale world for her son.
Perseus Publishing
A collection of stories includes tales about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, a rebellious teen facing torture in a rehab facility, and a mother who invents a fairy-tale world for her son.
Perseus Publishing
Praise for Karen Joy Fowler:
"No contemporary writer creates characters more appealing, or examines them with greater acuity and forgiveness."?Michael Chabon
"Fowler's witty writing is a joy to read."?USA Today
In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.
The sinister and the magical are always lurking just below the surface: for a mother who invents a fairy-tale world for her son in "Halfway People"; for Edwin Booth in "Edwin's Ghost," haunted by his fame as "America's Hamlet" and his brother's terrible actions; for Norah, a rebellious teenager facing torture in "The Pelican Bar" as she confronts Mama Strong, the sadistic boss of a rehabilitation facility; for the narrator recounting her descent in "What I Didn't See."
With clear and insightful prose, Fowler's stories measure the human capacities for hope and despair, brutality and kindness. This collection, which includes two Nebula Award winners, is sure to delight readers, even as it pulls the rug out from underneath them.
Karen Joy Fowler (karenjoyfowler.com) is the author of five novels, including Wit's End, PEN/Faulkner finalist Sister Noon, and New York Times bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club. Her collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award. Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children, live in Santa Cruz, California.
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Add a CommentKaren Joy Fowler returns to her imaginative, sometimes speculative fiction in this varied array of short stories that seem both intensely creative and personal.
Darn, this writer can put a spell on you but I find fantasy does not engage my pragmatic, Yankee, geezer imagination. I am easily lost!
Karen Fowler keeps getting better! These are uniformly well-crafted stories, with good strong characters. She likes stories with a delicious amount of ambiguity - what is really happening? You can read many of the stories as fantasy or not, depending on your interpretation, like the first story, "The Pelican Bar", which just won the World Fantasy Award for best short story.