Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories, Hardcover

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A stunning new collection of short fictions 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 first collection of acclaimed short fictions, teeming with uncanny characters whose stories 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. ``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. 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 fantasy underscored by rich universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope.