num_pages: 210
description: Emerging from a unique and powerful voice, this innovative collection offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies hidden just beyond the ordinary, skirting the border between childhood and adulthood. Mysticism, heroism, cruelty, and compassion thread through these multifaceted tales — which range from the origins of the Manhattan Project to a culinary object-lesson, from 1950s corruption to a slight glitch in Creation. Collected here for the first time and including an excerpt from her breakout first novel The Green Glass Sea, and an introduction from Neil Gaiman, these stories are timeless and delightful, chilling and beautiful.
language: English
title: Portable Childhoods
titlecomplete: Portable Childhoods
genres: Magical Realism, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Collections, Adult Fiction, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 270
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Collection
publisher: Tachyon Publications