Name: Skin Folk: Stories - Nalo Hopkinson
Brand: Nalo Hopkinson
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nWorld Fantasy Award Winner: Fiction that combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling, by the author of The Salt Roads (Library Journal). n In Skin Folk, with 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. n n 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. n n Hopkinson's prose is vivid and immediate. --The Washington Post Book World n n An important new writer. --The Dallas Morning News n n Caribbean folklore informs many of the 15 stories, ranging from fabulist to mainstream, in this literary first short-fiction collection from Nebula and Hugo awards-nominee Hopkinson. Her descriptions of ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances ring true, the result of her strong evocation of place and