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A stunning new collection of short fictions from the World Fantasy Award and Newbery Medalwinning author ofThe Girl Who Drank the Moon.

From award-winning,New York Timesbestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning first collection of acclaimed short fictions, teeming with uncanny characters whose stories unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original.

When Mrs. Sorensens husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch. In Open the Door and the Light Pours Through, a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. Dreadful Young Ladies demonstrates the strength and powerknown and unknownof the imagination. The Insect and the Astronomer upends expectations about good and bad, knowledge and ignorance, love and longing. The World Fantasy Awardwinning novellaThe Unlicensed Magicianintroduces the secret, magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead.

By an author hailed as a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman (Minneapolis Star Tribune), the stories inDreadful Young Ladiesfeature bold, reality-bending fantasy underscored by rich universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope.