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A Locus "New & Notable" book
Our Fruiting Bodies is on Locus's 2022 Recommended Reading List.
Finalist for the 2023 Locus Awards.
Our Fruiting Bodies collects stories of old growth and
fresh decay, of stubborn rebirth and the faint but nonimaginary paths
connecting life and nonlife.
From the sharp, sweet confessional of their Peter Pan-inspired
“Awfully Big Adventure,” through the melting ambitextualities of “Just
Us”—from the early, dizzy-eyed quest at the heart of “Looking for
Lilith” through the newly unfurling tendrils that pierce the grounds
of “I Being Young and Foolish,” Nisi Shawl’s search for the power of
fiction’s truth puts pure, precious gifts right here, right in your
hands, ripe and ready for reading.
Advance Praise
Nisi Shawl's Our Fruiting Bodies is a wilderness of untamed magic
to explore, ever changing underfoot, beauty thorned and fertile with
meaning, nurtured by the most talented of keepers. Shawl trusts their
readers to be attuned to the mysteries of the imagined, rather than
sated by formula or convention.
—Indrapramit Das, author of The Devourers
Praise for Nisi Shawl's Filter House
“The threads of folklore, religious magic, family and the search for a cohesive self are woven with power and lucidity throughout this panorama of race, magic and the body.”
—Starred Review, Publishers Weekly
Reviews Rich in diversity and imagination, this will delight any speculative fiction reader. (Read the whole review)
—Publishers Weekly, August 15, 2022 Nebula Award nominee Shawl (Everfair, 2016) presents a new
collection of fantastical short fiction bound to delight speculative
fiction and Afrofuturism readers.
—Booklist, November, 2022
Another short story collection by the brilliant Nisi
Shawl. Imaginative, moving, powerful, compassionate, as good as Filter
House, which is high praise, because that’s one of my very favourite
single author collections. It’s great to see someone working at the
top of their craft like this. I heard that it was out at the World
Fantasy opening ceremonies and bought it immediately. There’s an
incredible range of kinds of stories here, and they’re all just so
great.-
—Tor.com, Jo Walton, January 13, 2022
ISBN: 978-1-61976-224-4 (13 digit)
Publication Date: Nov 2022
paperback 327 pages
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