num_pages: 304
description: Author Kelly Barnhill has written a collection of stories teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original. When Mrs. Sorensens husband dies she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch. In Open the Door and the Light Pours Through a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. Dreadful Young Ladies demonstrates the strength and powerknown and unknownof the imagination. In Notes on the Untimely Death of Ronia Drake a witch is haunted by the deadly repercussions of a spell. The Insect and the Astronomer upends expectations about good and bad knowledge and ignorance love and longing. The World Fantasy Awardwinning novella The Unlicensed Magician introduces the secret magical life of an invisible girl once left for deadwith thematic echoes of Barnhills Newbery Medalwinning novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon.
language: English
title: Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories
publisher: Algonquin Books