Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House
10 best books like Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House (Rob Spillman): Mostly Dead Things, Orange World and Other Stories, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, If Only You People Could Follow Directions: A Memoir, The Color Master: Stories, Bobcat and Other Stories, Native American Animal Stories, Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection, Swamplandia!
| Author | Kristen Arnett |
| ISBN | 1947793306 |
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into...
Orange World and Other Stories
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 1984892215 |
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.
Karen Russell's...
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 0307263983 |
In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here, wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns; a family makes its living wrestling alligators in a theme park; and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning...
| Author | Jessica Hendry Nelson |
| ISBN | 1619022338 |
If Only You People Could Follow Directions is a spellbinding debut by Jessica Hendry Nelson. In linked autobiographical essays, Nelson has reimagined the memoir with her thoroughly original voice, fearless writing, and hypnotic storytelling. At its center, the book is the story of three people:...
The Color Master: Stories
| Author | Aimee Bender |
| ISBN | 0385534892 |
The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories.
Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and...
| Author | Rebecca Lee |
| ISBN | 1616201738 |
Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 1555911277 |
The Papago Indians of the American Southwest say butterflies were created to gladden the hearts of children and chase away thoughts of aging and death. How the Butterflies Came to Be is one of twenty-four Native American tales included in Native American Animal Stories. The stories, coming from Mohawk,...
| Author | Bret Anthony Johnston |
| ISBN | 0812975480 |
You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. From developing characters to building conflict, from mastering...
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0312356145 |
For nearly two decades, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant continue this critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction...
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Everglades—and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the "World of Darkness."
Ava, a resourceful...
