{"product_id":"9781616207977","title":"Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning new collection of short fictions for adult readers from the World Fantasy Award– and Newbery Medal–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girl Who Drank the Moon.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e   From award-winning, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling 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. Sorensen’s 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 power—known and unknown—of the imagination. “The Insect and the Astronomer” upends expectations about good and bad, knowledge and ignorance, love and longing. The World Fantasy Award–winning novella \u003ci\u003eThe Unlicensed Magician\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the secret, magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e   By an author hailed as “a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman” (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e), the stories in \u003ci\u003eDreadful Young Ladies \u003c\/i\u003efeature bold, reality-bending fantasy underscored by rich universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031629414640,"sku":"9781616207977","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616207977_p0.jpg?v=1763855236","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616207977","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}