Waiting on Wednesday [269] – DREADFUL YOUNG LADIES by Kelly Barnhill

Waiting on Wednesdays is the brainchild of Jill at Breaking the Spine, and because Jill isn’t hosting it any more, I’m now linking up with Can’t Wait Wednesday at Wishful Endings. Stop over there and link up your “Can’t Wait” book of the week!

I love this cover, and I’m always on the lookout for a great short story collection:

A stunning new collection of short stories 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 collection of stories, teeming with uncanny characters whose lives 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.  In “Notes on the Untimely Death of Ronia Drake,” a witch is haunted by the deadly repercussions of a spell. “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—with thematic echoes of Barnhill’s Newbery Medal–winning novel, The Girl Who Drank the Moon.

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 invention underscored by richly illuminated universal themes of love, death, jealousy, hope, and more.

Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories by Kelly Barnhill. Releases in February 2018 from Algonquin Books. Barnhill has mostly written YA and MG fiction, but this definitely looks like an adult collection. I have to admit I’m not familiar with this author, but it’s nice to know she’s won a bunch of awards.

Posted October 11, 2017 by Tammy in Waiting on Wednesday / 19 Comments

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19 responses to “Waiting on Wednesday [269] – DREADFUL YOUNG LADIES by Kelly Barnhill

  1. Goodness me, the comparison to Neil Gaiman is high praise indeed. The collection of stories is definitely diverse enough so for me to very very take by it. Fabulous pick, Tammy!

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