Skin Folk

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Skin Folk

Author: Nalo Hopkinson
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Publisher: Aspect
Nalo Hopkinson has gained universal acclaim as one of the most impressively original authors to emerge in years. Now she presents Skin Folk, a richly vibrant collection of short fiction that ranges from Trinidad to Toronto, from fantastic folklore to frightening futures, from houses of deadly haunts to realms of dark sexuality. Powerful and sensual, disturbing and triumphant, these tales explore the surface of modern existence…and delve under the skin of eternal legends.
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Award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson’s first collection is Skin Folk, and its 15 stories are as strong and beautiful as her novels.

“The Glass Bottle Trick” retells the Bluebeard legend in a Caribbean setting and rhythms, for a sharp, chilling examination of love, gender, race, and class. In the myth-tinged “Money Tree,” a Canadian immigrant’s greed sends him back to Jamaica in pursuit of an accursed pirate treasure. In “Slow Cold Chick,” a woman must confront the deadly cockatrice that embodies her suppressed desires. In the postapocalyptic science fantasy “Under Glass,” events in one world affect those in another, and a child’s carelessness may doom them both. The lightest of fantastic imagery touches “Fisherman,” a tropically hot tale of sexual awakening, and one of the five original stories in Skin Folk. —Cynthia Ward

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