Originally published by Warner Books in 2001. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Precious. Money tree -- Something to hitch meat to -- Snake -- Under glass -- Glass bottle trick -- Slow cold chick -- Fisherman -- Tan-Tan and Dry Bone -- Greedy choke puppy -- Habit of waste -- And the lillies-them a-blow -- Whose upward flight I love -- Ganger (ball lightning) -- Precious.
Summary:
Winner of the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: In Skin folk, with fifteen works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like "Precious," in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In "A Habit of Waste," a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she's shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. In "The Glass Bottle Trick," the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husband's superstitions -- to horrifying consequences. Hopkinson's unique and vibrant sense of pacing and dialogue sets a steady beat for stories that illustrate why she received the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed
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