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- Nebula Award nominee for Best NovellaWorld Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novella"If I had to nominate a worthy successor to Angela Carter, I would nominate Kelly Barnhill.
- About the Author: Kelly Barnhill is the author of the adult novel When Women Were Dragons and several middle grade novels, including the New York Times bestselling novels The Girl Who Drank the Moon, winner of the 2017 John Newbery Medal, and The Ogress and the Orphans.
- 128 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
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About the Book
"Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family. "Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters." A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mother, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it's been just the three of them-her mother has brought home guests at times, but none have ever stayed. Yet when her mother brings home a six-foot tall crane with a menacing air, the girl is powerless to prevent her mom letting the intruder into her heart, and her children's lives. Utterly enchanted and numb to his sharp edges, her mother abandons the world around her to weave the masterpiece the crane demands. In this stunning contemporary retelling of "The Crane Wife" by the Newbery Award-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, one fiercely pragmatic teen forced to grow up faster than was fair will do whatever it takes to protect her family-and change the story"--Book Synopsis
Nebula Award nominee for Best Novella
World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novella
"If I had to nominate a worthy successor to Angela Carter, I would nominate Kelly Barnhill. "--Laura Ruby, two-time National Book Award finalist and author of Bone Gap
Review Quotes
"The Crane Husband is a slim little novella that packs a narrative punch more intense than that of many books ten times its length. It takes well-trodden tropes and renders them specific and more sinister than they seemed in the old tales, woven through with vivid and grisly details."--NPR
"If I had to nominate a worthy successor to Angela Carter, I would nominate Kelly Barnhill. The Crane Husband is a bloody, subversive, and brilliant reimagining of a familiar fairy tale, rendered strange and haunting."--Laura Ruby, two-time National Book Award finalist and author of Bone Gap "Few books have left me as haunted as Kelly Barnhill's mesmeric The Crane Husband."--Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author "The incomparable Barnhill delivers this sly, confrontational retelling with masterful ease and crystalline prose, revealing, feather by feather, the very real generational threat that has always burned at the core of this ancient story."--Catherynne M. Valente, New York Times bestselling author "Master storyteller Kelly Barnhill offers an evocative and darkly beautiful fairy tale for the modern age in The Crane Husband. . . . Barnhill's exceptional talent for threading together imaginative worlds and emotionally resonant characters is on full display in this updated twist on a Japanese folktale. Ultimately, it is the story's unresolved tensions--between pragmatism and passion, family legacy and freedom, art and commerce, old and new--that succeed in making readers' throats tighten."--Shelf Awareness, starred review "A fast-moving, lush story that refuses to end neatly, a story of flighty mothers and the daughters who die a little keeping their families alive. Fans of fairy-tale retellings will eat this one up."--Booklist, starred review "[A] grim, grown-up fairytale . . . fans of dark, surreal fantasy will be enthralled."--Publishers Weekly Beyond retelling a folktale, Barnhill constructs nuanced characters with conflicting motivations and loyalties . . . [and] arrives at a thought-provoking conclusion."--Library JournalAbout the Author
Kelly Barnhill is the author of the adult novel When Women Were Dragons and several middle grade novels, including the New York Times bestselling novels The Girl Who Drank the Moon, winner of the 2017 John Newbery Medal, and The Ogress and the Orphans. She is also the recipient of the World Fantasy Award, and has been a finalist for the SFWA Andre Norton Nebula Award and the PEN America Literary Award. She lives in Minneapolis with her family.Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .5 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 128
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Publisher: Tordotcom
Format: Hardcover
Author: Kelly Barnhill
Language: English
Street Date: February 28, 2023
TCIN: 86722669
UPC: 9781250850973
Item Number (DPCI): 247-39-2645
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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