{"product_id":"ninetails-nine-tales","title":"Ninetails: Nine Tales","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"sly and spirited\" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (C Pam Zhang).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA fox spirit avenges a teen girl by seducing her abuser. A shapeshifting woman finds herself chased through the woods by fox hunters; meanwhile, an assassination plot called Operation Fox Hunt unfolds against the last Queen of Korea. Chinese migrants hoping to make new lives as \"paper children\" in America find their pasts--and their hopes for the future--embodied in the foxes that haunt the harbor in 1900s Angel Island. In the nine tales of \u003ci\u003eNinetails, \u003c\/i\u003eacclaimed poet Sally Wen Mao reimagines the fox spirit from Asian folklore--a shapeshifter, shaman, and seductress--as an icon of vengeance, solidarity and liberation. The characters of her stories are varied--from silicone sex dolls who come to life with new purpose, to women whose crushes manifest as stones--but they all reach for a common purpose: to find truth and belonging in a difficult world determined to consider them alien. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the fabulist vibrancy of Carmen Maria Machado, the sinuous world-building of Helen Oyeyemi, and the sensuous feminist rage of Han Kang, \u003ci\u003eNinetails\u003c\/i\u003e is both timeless--unearthing a cultural icon whose origins date back over a thousand years--and timely in its contemporary political urgency.\r","brand":"Sally Wen Mao","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44452256088300,"sku":"9780143137894","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780143137894.jpg?v=1719259800","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/ninetails-nine-tales","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}