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Ninetails : Nine Tales by Sally Wen Mao; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ninetails : Nine Tales about?

A "sumptious and lively" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (Kelly Link). A 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 pastsand their hopes for the futureembodied in the foxes that haunt the harbor in 1900s Angel Island. In the nine tales of Ninetails, acclaimed poet Sally Wen Mao reimagines the fox spirit from Asian folklorea shapeshifter, shaman, and seductressas an icon of vengeance, solidarity and liberation. The characters of her stories are variedfrom silicone sex dolls who come to life with new purpose, to women whose crushes manifest as stonesbut they all reach for a common to find truth and belonging in a difficult world determined to consider them alien.With the fabulist vibrancy of Carmen Maria Machado, the sinuous world-building of Helen Oyeyemi, and the sensuous feminist rage of Han Kang, Ninetails is both timelessunearthing a cultural icon who

Who reads Ninetails : Nine Tales?

Author

Sally Wen Mao;

Publisher

Penguin Random House Distribution

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143137894

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities