Book description
In her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism; featuring the 2023 World Fantasy Award–winning story, “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”!
“In these 14 powerhouse stories, Due probes history, the grim present moment, and not so…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Wishing Pool and Other Stories as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The tales in Tananarive Due’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories have a certain linger and enchantment that touch the reader across many levels.
It casts Black protagonists with revolutionary focus in the everyday, in poignant tellings deeply engraved with humanity and what else. Due journeys the reader across a personal odyssey infused with Black horror real as touch.
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