ISBN: 1616960345 9781616960346

Category: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)

Page count: 218

Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick’s twenty-year literary career, <i>The Fate of Mice</i> is a powerful collection from an extraordinary fantasist. These unflinching tales, including three original pieces, consider a woman born with her heart exposed and the heartless killer who protects her, a wolf who is willingly ensnared by a devious academic, a businessman resurrected to play at politics, and an ingenious mouse dreaming beyond the laboratory.<br><br>With the perceptiveness of Joyce Carol Oates, the inventiveness of Ray Bradbury, and the emotional resonance of Alice Sebold, <i>The Fate of Mice</i> is a meditation on the very art of storytelling: mythic, beautiful, and often brutal, filled with authentic compassion.