Magic for Unlucky Girls
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
The fourteen fantastical stories in Magic For Unlucky Girls take the familiar tropes of fairytales and twist them into new and surprising shapes. These unlucky girls, struggling against a society that all too often oppresses them, are forced to navigate strange worlds as they try to survive. From carnivorous husbands to a bath of lemons to whirling basements that drive people mad, these stories are about the demons that lurk in the corners and the women who refuse to submit to them, instead fighting back—sometimes with their wit, sometimes with their beauty, and sometimes with shotguns in the dead of night.
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The mundane and bizarre walk hand in hand or sometimes run around, setting fire to everything in their path in Balaskovits's stories about girls and women thrust into strange circumstances. A mysterious unspeaking man with apparent superpowers becomes the hope of a city wracked by earthquakes in "Put Back Together Again." The alchemist of "Suburban Alchemy" learns that being a master of the changeable art doesn't mean he can cope with the changes in his tween daughter. A woman takes her ailing grandfather to Israel in search of an old family story that may be about her in "The Ibex Girl of Qumran." The evils of strict religion and abuse lead a group of desperate girls to try to escape through a sacrifice in "Bloody Mary." There isn't a single tired trope here in fact, there are few familiar elements at all so readers looking for something askew from any fantasy they've read before will want to get to know the unlucky but determined girls of Balaskovits's stories.
