On Sale Date: June 14, 2022
ISBN 9781250847287, 1250847281
Trade Paperback | 336 pages
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 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 that 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.
