The Animal Women

The Animal Women
By: Alix Harrow
Published in: Strange Horizons
Publication date: 12 January 2015
Description, by Lois Tilton [Locus]: "Set in 1968, in the kind of white country community that feels threatened and defensive in the wake of all the changes going on in the wider society outside; typically, their reaction tends to be violent. Candice is a sixth-grade girl with a speech impediment who prefers to express herself through photography. One day she comes upon a house where five strange women live together; they befriend her, and tell her their stories, which are similar..... " 
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