Skin Folk : : Stories

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Call Number: Science Fiction, Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / General / Hopkinson, Nalo
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Science Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / General / Hopkinson, Nalo	4-week checkout	Due 05-02-2024

Originally published by Warner Books in 2001.
Riding the red -- Money tree -- Something to hitch meat to -- Snake -- Under glass -- Glass bottle trick -- Slow cold chick -- Fisherman -- Tan-Tan and Dry Bone -- Greedy choke puppy -- Habit of waste -- And the lillies-them a-blow -- Whose upward flight I love -- Ganger (ball lightning) -- Precious.
Winner of the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: In Skin folk, with fifteen works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like "Precious," in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In "A Habit of Waste," a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she's shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. In "The Glass Bottle Trick," the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husband's superstitions--to horrifying consequences. Hopkinson's unique and vibrant sense of pacing and dialogue sets a steady beat for stories that illustrate why she received the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed.

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Nalo Hopkinson has range! submitted by nemiller on July 17, 2021, 6:39pm These stories are so varied in tone and genre, and they're all good! That said, even if you don't like one story, keep reading because you might like the next one.