O, The Oprah Magazine Title to Pick Up Now” & Oprah.com Book of the Week San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearLibrary Journal Best Stories Collection of the YearEmotionally rich.” New York TimesAmbitious, lush and even thrilling.” Los Angeles TimesRipping good yarns.” Minneapolis Star TribuneThe stories in this strange and original collection bend genreshorror, mystery, Westerninto wondrous new shapes.” O, The Oprah MagazineIn each of these eight lyrical and baroque tales, Melissa Pritchard transports readers into spine-tingling milieus that range from the astounding realm of Robert LeRoy Ripley’s odditoriums” to the courtyard where Edgar Allan Poe once played as a child
Whether she is setting the famed figures of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, including Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull, against the real, genocidal history of the American West, or contrasting the luxurious hotel where British writer Somerset Maugham stayed with the modern-day brothels of India, her stories illuminate the many ways history and architecture exert powerful forces upon human consciousness.Melissa Pritchard is a Flannery O’Connor, Janet Heidinger Kafka, and Carl Sandburg award-winning author whose previous short fiction collections were New York Times Notable Book and Editors’ Choice selections. She lives in Arizona.
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