Young Woman in a Garden: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781618730916)

In her vivid and sly, gentle and wise, long-anticipated first collection, Delia Sherman takes seemingly insignificant moments in the lives of artists or sailors--the light out a window, the two strokes it takes to turn a small boat--and finds the ghosts haunting them, the magic surrounding them. Here are the lives that make up larger histories, here are tricksters and gardeners, faeries and musicians, all glittering and sparkling, finding beauty and hope and always unexpected, a touch of wild magic.

Praise for Delia Sherman's previous books:

"Multilayered, compassionate, and thought-provoking."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Fantastic in every sense of the word, Sherman's second novel (Through a Brazen Mirror) is a skillfully crafted fairy tale that owes as much to E.T.A. Hoffman as to Charles Perrault. . . . The Porcelain Dove is no dainty vertu but a seductive, sinister bird with razored feathers."--Publishers Weekly

Delia Sherman was born in Japan and raised in New York City. Her work has appeared most recently in the anthologies Naked City, Steampunk!, and Queen Victoria's Book of Spells. She is the author of six novels including The Porcelain Dove (a New York Times Notable Book), The Freedom Maze, and Changeling, and has received the Mythopoeic and Norton awards. She lives in New York City.


Author: Delia Sherman
ISBN-10: 1618730916
ISBN-13: 9781618730916
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2014
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/27/2014
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/03/2014 pg. 34
Library Journal 11/15/2014 pg. 69
Asimov's Science Fiction 09/01/2015 pg. 107