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The Fate of Mice

Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick's twenty-year literary career, The Fate of Miceis 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.

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With the perceptiveness of Joyce Carol Oates, the inventiveness of Ray Bradbury, and the emotional resonance of Alice Sebold, The Fate of Miceis a meditation on the very art of storytelling: mythic, beautiful, and often brutal, filled with authentic compassion.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 218 pages

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