World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Locus award finalist
Divided into “Tender Bodies” and “Tender Landscapes,” the stories collected here in this first collection of short fiction from a rising star travel from the commonplace to the edges of reality. Some of Samatar’s weird and compassionate fabulations spring from her life and literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void. Tender explores the fragility of bodies, emotions, and landscapes, in settings that range from medieval Egypt to colonial Kenya to the stars, and the voices of those who question: children, students, servants, researchers, writers.
Tender includes two new stories, “An Account of the Land of Witches” and the Nommo Award shortlisted “Fallow.”
- ISBN10 1618731653
- ISBN13 9781618731654
- Publish Date 16 May 2019 (first published 17 April 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Small Beer Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English