What I Didn't See and Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Fowler, Karen Joy

• Book ID: 108689747
• Publisher: Small Beer Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 114 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781931520683

✦ Synopsis

Praise for Karen Joy Fowler:

"No contemporary writer creates characters more appealing, or examines them with greater acuity and forgiveness."--Michael Chabon

"Fowler's witty writing is a joy to read."--USA Today

World Fantasy Award Winner

In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

The sinister and the magical are always lurking just below the surface: for a mother who invents a fairy-tale world for her son in "Halfway People"; for Edwin Booth in "Edwin's Ghost," haunted by his fame as "America's Hamlet" and his brother's terrible actions; for Norah, a rebellious teenager facing torture in "The Pelican Bar" as she confronts Mama Strong, the sadistic boss of a rehabilitation...