{"product_id":"ninetails-nine-tales","title":"Ninetails: Nine Tales","description":"\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF 2024 WITH THE WASHINGTON POST, ELLE, AND ELECTRIC LIT \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A sumptuous and lively collection, leaping from story to story in much the same way a fox does -- surprisingly, gracefully, and with impressive aim. I loved this book.\" - Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGet in Trouble \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Love\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"What I love most about \u003ci\u003eNinetails \u003c\/i\u003eis its fierce allegiance to underdogs of all kinds, its careful and myriad empathy for its characters, but also its pure and artisanal delight in language and fictive possibilities.\" --Ocean Vuong, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOn Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTime is a Mother\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \"lyrical and virtuosic\" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (Gina Chung). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA fox spirit avenges a teen girl by seducing her abuser. A shapeshifting woman finds herself chased through the woods by fox hunters; meanwhile, an assassination plot called Operation Fox Hunt unfolds against the last Queen of Korea. Chinese migrants hoping to make new lives as \"paper children\" in America find their pasts--and their hopes for the future--embodied in the foxes that haunt the harbor in 1900s Angel Island. In the nine tales of \u003ci\u003eNinetails, \u003c\/i\u003eacclaimed poet Sally Wen Mao reimagines the fox spirit from Asian folklore--a shapeshifter, shaman, and seductress--as an icon of vengeance, solidarity and liberation. The characters of her stories are varied--from silicone sex dolls who come to life with new purpose, to women whose crushes manifest as stones--but they all reach for a common purpose: to find truth and belonging in a difficult world determined to consider them alien. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the fabulist vibrancy of Carmen Maria Machado, the sinuous world-building of Helen Oyeyemi, and the sensuous feminist rage of Han Kang, \u003ci\u003eNinetails\u003c\/i\u003e is both timeless--unearthing a cultural icon whose origins date back over a thousand years--and timely in its contemporary political urgency.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942934577383,"sku":"9780143137894","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_33236f67-8eaa-43c8-920c-bade4daf3c36.jpg?v=1775272423","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/ninetails-nine-tales","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}