Ninetails : nine tales
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[New York] : Penguin Books, 2024.
ISBN
9780143137894, 0143137891
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 21 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Brookline - New Books | ON ORDER | On Order |
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Brookline - Adult | SFF Mao, Sally | Checked Out |
Cambridge Valente - Adult | SCI FIC Mao, Sally Wen | Checked Out |
Framingham McAuliffe - New Books | FICTION FANTASY Mao | Browse |
Franklin - Paperback | PB FICTION MAO 2024 | On Shelf |
Lexington - New Books | FICTION MAO | In Transit |
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Published
[New York] : Penguin Books, 2024.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780143137894, 0143137891
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Description
"A "smart and deft" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (C. Pam Zhang). A 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 Ninetails, acclaimed 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. With the fabulist vibrancy of Carmen Maria Machado, the sinuous world-building of Helen Oyeyemi, and the sensuous feminist rage of Han Kang, Ninetails is both timeless--unearthing a cultural icon whose origins date back over a thousand years--and timely in its contemporary political urgency"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mao, S. W., & Mao, S. W. (2024). Ninetails: nine tales . Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mao, Sally Wen and Sally Wen. Mao. 2024. Ninetails: Nine Tales. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mao, Sally Wen and Sally Wen. Mao. Ninetails: Nine Tales Penguin Books, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mao, Sally Wen,, and Sally Wen Mao. Ninetails: Nine Tales Penguin Books, 2024.
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