SKIN FOLK.
[New York]: Aspect/Warner Books, [2001]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. The author's first collection, fifteen stories. 2002 World Fantasy Award winner for best collection. "In explaining the title for her first short fiction collection, Skin Folk, Nalo Hopkinson says that: 'Throughout the Caribbean, under different names, you'll find stories about people who aren't what they seem. Skin gives these skin folk their human shape. When the skin comes off, their true selves emerge... it seemed an apt metaphor to use for these stories collectively.' That said, it is interesting to note that while mostly grounded in an ethnic folklore, including the exotic diction that distinguished Hopkinson's first two novels, foreign to a genre dominated by a white European orientation, the collection is bookended by two riffs on the Brothers Grimm." "So, I imagine, it is with many of us who hear secondhand from others of things we were supposed to have done in our own bodies, but have been bent out of proportion more to suit the teller than the reality. The only difference is that the storytellers who reinvent us for their own purposes are not nearly as inventive or interesting as Hopkinson." - David Soyka, online review at sfsite. A fine copy, unread. (29385). Item #29385
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