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The supernatural, the animal, and the deadly often find each other in Lisa
M. Bradley's landscapes, tame or wild. Vampires, either restless or filled
with ennui; shape-shifters and skin-walkers; demigoddesses of evil and
lust; haunted girls and dying fairies—the characters in this collection
inhabit worlds of danger, decay, and, sometimes, rebirth. Often rooted in
issues of family, ritual, and belonging, the poems and short stories in The
Haunted Girl display Bradley's loving mastery of language, which grants us
myriad moments of impish wit and startling beauty.
Though not a memoir, some of the science-fiction, horror and fantasy pieces
in Bradley's book have an autobiographical feel, drawing on the author's
youth as a Latina in South Texas. Certainly the innumerable facets of
female identity glitter at the heart of these darkly beautiful treks
through otherworldly landscapes of desire and pain, belonging and
loneliness, creation and destruction.... Bradley possesses a real gift for
language and unflinching insight into the best and worst of human
nature. You owe it to yourself to check out this rising star of speculative
fiction and verse. (Read the whole review)
—The Monitor, David Bowles, Dec. 5, 2014
ISBN: 978-1-61976-063-9 (13 digit)
Publication Date: Oct 2014
paperback 146 pages
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