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NINETAILS
In her debut story collection NINETAILS, Mao reimagines the nine-tailed fox spirit from Asian folklore - a shapeshifter, shaman, and seductress - as an icon of vengeance, solidarity, and liberation.
The characters of Sally's stories are as varied as silicone sex dolls who come to life finding new purpose ("Love Doll"), women whose crushes manifest as stones ("The Crush"), or Chinese migrants hoping to make new lives as "paper children" in America, even as they're held in detention at the infamous Angel Island immigration station in early 1900s San Francisco ("The Haunting of Angel Island").
Feral, foxy, and fabulous, NINETAILS draws from the imagination for which Sally is known for in her poetry, and catapults her into a new genre. With the fabulist vibrancy of Carmen Maria Machado, the sinuous world-building of Helen Oyeyemi, and the sensuous feminist rage of Han Kang, NINETAILS is both timeless - unearthing a cultural icon whose origins date back over a thousand years - and timely in its contemporary political urgency.
Sally Wen Mao is the author of Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a Time Magazine 100 Must-Read Book of 2019, Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014), and the forthcoming The Kingdom of
Surfaces (Graywolf Press, 2023). The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes (2022 and 2017) and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she was recently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington, and a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. Mao's poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry, and Harpers Bazaar, among others, and she has received rave reviews in national outlets such as the New Yorker, Time, NPR, and The Washington Post. She is a Kundiman fellow in both poetry and fiction. Raised in Boston and the Bay Area, she currently resides in New York City and teaches writing at the NYU MFA Program, NYU Gallatin, and the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College.
Feral, foxy, and fabulous, NINETAILS draws from the imagination for which Sally is known for in her poetry, and catapults her into a new genre. With the fabulist vibrancy of Carmen Maria Machado, the sinuous world-building of Helen Oyeyemi, and the sensuous feminist rage of Han Kang, NINETAILS is both timeless - unearthing a cultural icon whose origins date back over a thousand years - and timely in its contemporary political urgency.
Sally Wen Mao is the author of Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a Time Magazine 100 Must-Read Book of 2019, Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014), and the forthcoming The Kingdom of
Surfaces (Graywolf Press, 2023). The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes (2022 and 2017) and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she was recently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington, and a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. Mao's poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry, and Harpers Bazaar, among others, and she has received rave reviews in national outlets such as the New Yorker, Time, NPR, and The Washington Post. She is a Kundiman fellow in both poetry and fiction. Raised in Boston and the Bay Area, she currently resides in New York City and teaches writing at the NYU MFA Program, NYU Gallatin, and the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College.
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Published 2024-05-28 by Viking |
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