FIC027040 FICTION / Gothic
LCO019000 LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors
FIC004000 FICTION / Classics
Print ISBN: 978-1-941360-36-1
Digital ISBN: 978-1-941360-37-8
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 x .86 • 336 pages • Case: ~30
RELEASE: 3/31/2020
"Dr. Theodora Goss has gathered a collection of strengths: gothic tales of women, by women, some of which had been lost to time and forgetting... creating a gothic landscape that is at once timeless and timely, filled with brilliant, angry, determined women who leap right off the page."
—Fran Wilde, Nebula-winning author of Updraft, World Fantasy, Hugo, and Locus finalist, and Director of the Genre MFA for writers at Western Colorado University.
In the gridlocked harbor of San Francisco's Barbary Coast, a ship hung with red paper lanterns draws crowds eager to gamble and drink. Aboard this red-lit ship, the fates of two young women will be altered irrevocably—and tied forever to that of an ancient lighthouse keeper who longs to be free.
Set against the backdrop of Gold Rush-era San Francisco's Chinese immigrant community, Ship of Fates is a coming-of-age fairy tale that stretches across generations.
Praise for Medusa's Daughters
"With Medusa's Daughters, brilliant scholar, poet, and storyteller, Dr. Theodora Goss has gathered a collection of strengths: gothic tales of women, by women, some of which had been lost to time and forgetting. In doing so, she's brought us back to the short stories and poetry of Vernon Lee, Elinor Wylie, and (a personal favorite) Charlotte Mew. Dr. Goss has further interwoven these stories and poems with short stories by Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, and Kate Chopin, creating a gothic landscape that is at once timeless and timely, filled with brilliant, angry, determined women who leap right off the page."
—Fran Wilde, Nebula-winning author of Updraft, World Fantasy, Hugo, and Locus finalist, and Director of the Genre MFA for writers at Western Colorado University.
"Medusa’s Daughters is a sinister Gothic delight, full of unrepentant witches, ghosts, dryads, and changelings. Goss is an expert guide to the strange codes of fin-de-siècle patriarchy and the bold, monstrous women who defied them."
—Barbara Barrow, author of The Quelling
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