num_pages: 88
description: The long-anticipated full-length debut collection from award-winning flash fiction writer Jasmine Sawers.A goat begins to grow inside a human heart. The rightful king is born a hard smooth seashell. Supernovas burst across skin like ink in water. Heartbreak transforms maidens into witches girls into goblins mothers into monsters. Hunger drives lovers and daughters soldiers and ghosts to unhinge their jaws and swallow the world. Drawing inspiration from a mixed heritage and from historyfrom the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen to the ancient legends of Thailand from the suburbs of Buffalo New York to the endless horizon of the American MidwestJasmine Sawers invents a hybrid folklore for liminal characters who live between the lines and within the creases of race and language culture and gender sexuality and ability. The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore is equal parts love letter to the old tales and indictment of their shortcomings offering a new mythology to reflect the many faces and voices of the twenty-first century.
language: English
title: The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore
publisher: Rose Metal Press