Hester joins the investigation to find the truth, both about her friend’s death and the information he believed he had uncovered. She’s surprised to hear from an old friend and fellow victim of the terrorist attack that ruined her life-and that surprise quickly turns to suspicion when he claims to have discovered something shocking about their shared history and the tragedy that neither of them can leave behind.īefore Hester can learn more, her friend is violently murdered at a remote asteroid mine. Now she spends her days investigating petty crimes to help her employer maximize its profits. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home, she was forced to take a dead-end security job with a powerful mining company in the asteroid belt. Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life.
Published March 2nd 2021 by Tordotcom | Amazon | GoodreadsĪn investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day. In the showstopping, awards finalist title story, “Burning Girls,” Schanoes invests the immigrant narrative with a fearsome fairytale quality that tells a story about America we may not want-but need-to hear.ĭreamy, dangerous, and precise, with the weight of the very oldest tales we tell, Burning Girls and Other Stories introduces a writer pushing the boundaries of both fantasy and contemporary fiction. 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. This debut collection introduces readers to a fantasist in the vein of Karen Russell and Kelly Link, with a voice all her own.Įmma Goldman-yes, that Emma Goldman-takes tea with the Baba Yaga and truths unfold inside of exquisitely crafted lies. In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center. When we came to America, we brought anger and socialism and hunger. Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes
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