{"product_id":"ninetails-nine-tales-9780143137894","title":"Ninetails: Nine Tales","description":"\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF 2024 WITH THE WASHINGTON POST, ELLE, AND ELECTRIC LIT \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A sumptuous and lively collection, leaping from story to story in much the same way a fox does -- surprisingly, gracefully, and with impressive aim. I loved this book.\" - Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGet in Trouble \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Love\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"What I love most about \u003ci\u003eNinetails \u003c\/i\u003eis its fierce allegiance to underdogs of all kinds, its careful and myriad empathy for its characters, but also its pure and artisanal delight in language and fictive possibilities.\" --Ocean Vuong, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOn Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTime is a Mother\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \"lyrical and virtuosic\" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (Gina Chung). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA fox spirit avenges a teen girl by seducing her abuser. A shapeshifting woman finds herself chased through the woods by fox hunters; meanwhile, an assassination plot called Operation Fox Hunt unfolds against the last Queen of Korea. Chinese migrants hoping to make new lives as \"paper children\" in America find their pasts--and their hopes for the future--embodied in the foxes that haunt the harbor in 1900s Angel Island. In the nine tales of \u003ci\u003eNinetails, \u003c\/i\u003eacclaimed poet Sally Wen Mao reimagines the fox spirit from Asian folklore--a shapeshifter, shaman, and seductress--as an icon of vengeance, solidarity and liberation. The characters of her stories are varied--from silicone sex dolls who come to life with new purpose, to women whose crushes manifest as stones--but they all reach for a common purpose: to find truth and belonging in a difficult world determined to consider them alien. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the fabulist vibrancy of Carmen Maria Machado, the sinuous world-building of Helen Oyeyemi, and the sensuous feminist rage of Han Kang, \u003ci\u003eNinetails\u003c\/i\u003e is both timeless--unearthing a cultural icon whose origins date back over a thousand years--and timely in its contemporary political urgency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sally Wen Mao\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 5.33w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143137894\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/04\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2024 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSally Wen Mao is the acclaimed author of three poetry collections--\u003ci\u003eOculus \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and one of Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019;\u003ci\u003e Mad Honey Symposium\u003c\/i\u003e, which named a Top Ten Debut of 2014 in \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Kingdom of Surfaces\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award. The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she's been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review, Harper Bazaar, Guenrica, PEN America, \u003c\/i\u003eamong others, with rave reviews of her writing in national outlets such as the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, NPR\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. She currently lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43774344724595,"sku":"9.78014E+12","price":20.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_126ba856-2e5c-4dfe-ac65-b918d77d7091.jpg?v=1757422962","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/ninetails-nine-tales-9780143137894","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}