Burning girls and other stories
The author crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center. In "Among the Thorns," a young woman in seventeenth century Germany is intent on avenging the brutal murder of her peddler father, but discovers that vengeance may consume all that it touches. In the title story, "Burning Girls," Schanoes invests the immigrant narrative with a fearsome fairytale quality that tells a st...
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