{"product_id":"ninetails-nine-tales-paperback","title":"Ninetails: Nine Tales - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSally Wen Mao\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 7.95 x 5.33 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700408356960,"sku":"9780143137894","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/ninetails-nine-tales-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}