Tender: Stories

Tender: Stories

<p><strong>World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Locus award finalist</strong></p><p><p>Divided into “Tender Bodies” and “Tender Landscapes,” the stories collected here in this first collection of short fiction from a rising star travel from the commonplace to the edges of reality. Some of Samatar’s weird and compassionate fabulations spring from her life and literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void. <em>Tender</em> explores the fragility of bodies, emotions, and landscapes, in settings that range from medieval Egypt to colonial Kenya to the stars, and the voices of those who question: children, students, servants, researchers, writers.</p><p><em>Tender</em> includes two new stories, “An Account of the Land of Witches” and the Nommo Award shortlisted “Fallow.”</p>