In Catherine Stine’s story collection, a sketch artist chases down her worst fears in a North Carolina forest, DIY garage geneticists face their humanoid fox jurors, an incorrigible teen addict experiences a transformative moment on a Coney Island beach, a sad young woman traveling to Vegas for a pop-idol concert finds a lost part of herself in Bellagio’s enchanting color fountain, an art student living in an abandoned shoe factory is haunted by roller-skating ghosts.
In allegorical story, in fantasy, the hero or heroine’s journey is revealed in stages like heat on invisible ink. As in the restoration of a tarnished painting, the jewel-tones under the dingy grime burst out in sharp, breathtaking sparks of pain, struggle, and love. The triumphant, hard-won battles of even her most unlikely warriors clarify a way forward for us all.
Readers say: ‘Full of mystery, love and history.’ ‘Three-dimensional, vivid, fresh.’ ‘Horrifying and hilarious.’
Genre: Fantasy
In allegorical story, in fantasy, the hero or heroine’s journey is revealed in stages like heat on invisible ink. As in the restoration of a tarnished painting, the jewel-tones under the dingy grime burst out in sharp, breathtaking sparks of pain, struggle, and love. The triumphant, hard-won battles of even her most unlikely warriors clarify a way forward for us all.
Readers say: ‘Full of mystery, love and history.’ ‘Three-dimensional, vivid, fresh.’ ‘Horrifying and hilarious.’
Genre: Fantasy
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