Skin Folk

by Hopkinson, Nalo

• ISBN13: 9780446678032
• ISBN10: 0446678031
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

Award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson's first collection is Skin Folk , and its 15 stories are as strong and beautiful as her novels. "The Glass Bottle Trick" retells the Bluebeard legend in a Caribbean setting and rhythms, for a sharp, chilling examination of love, gender, race, and class. In the myth-tinged "Money Tree," a Canadian immigrant's greed sends him back to Jamaica in pursuit of an accursed pirate treasure. In "Slow Cold Chick," a woman must confront the deadly cockatrice that embodies her suppressed desires. In the postapocalyptic science fantasy "Under Glass," events in one world affect those in another, and a child's carelessness may doom them both. The lightest of fantastic imagery touches "Fisherman," a tropically hot tale of sexual awakening, and one of the five original stories in Skin Folk . --Cynthia Ward

Table of Contents

Riding the Red	p. 1
Money Tree	p. 7
Something to Hitch Meat to	p. 23
Snake	p. 45
Under Glass	p. 63
The Glass Bottle Trick	p. 83
Slow Cold Chick	p. 103
Fisherman	p. 119
Tan-Tan and Dry Bone	p. 147
Greedy Choke Puppy	p. 167
A Habit of Waste	p. 183
And the Lillies-Them A-Blow	p. 203
Whose Upward Flight I Love	p. 217
Ganger (Ball Lightning)	p. 221
Precious	p. 247
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