The Sea Gives Up the Dead: Stories - Molly Olguín

The Sea Gives Up the Dead is a collection of stories sprinkled into the soil of fairy tale, left to take root and grow wild there. *Indies Introduce Selection from the American Booksellers Association* A lovesick nanny slays a dragon. The devil tries to save her mother. A girl drowns and becomes a saint. Three kids plot to blow up their dad, a grieving mother sails the sea to find her son's grave, a scientist brings a voice to life, and a mermaid falls into the power of a witch. Here, historical fiction, horror, and fantasy tangle together in a queer garden of love, grief, and longing. INDIES INTRODUCE SELECTION - DEBUT AUTHOR, MOLLY OLGUÍN brings us THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD, a collection of stories sprinkled into the soil of fairy tales, left to take root and grow wild there. A wunderkammer of beauty and sorrow.--Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House - Witty, witchy, darkly brilliant--Andrea Barrett, author of Natural History and Ship Fever - Mix the wildness of fairy tales with horror.--Kim Brock, Joseph-Beth Booksellers - Fantastical, queer, wildly inventive stories.--Austin Carter, Pocket Books Shop - A mouthwatering ride.--Desirae Wilkerson, Paper Boat Booksellers - Absolutely fantastic!--Randy Schiller, Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO A lovesick nanny slays a dragon. The devil tries to save her mother. A girl drowns and becomes a saint. Three kids plot to blow up their dad, a grieving mother sails the sea to find her son's grave, a scientist brings a voice to life, and a mermaid falls into the power of a witch. Here, historical fiction, horror, and fantasy tangle together in a queer garden of love, grief, and longing.