Ninetails: Nine Tales
Penguin Books:
New York: 2024
First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, New,
270 pp.
Cover artwork by: Whooli Chen
“A fox spirit avenges a teen girl by seducing her abuser. A shapeshifting woman finds herself chased through the woods by fox hunters; meanwhile, an assassination plot called Operation Fox Hunt unfolds against the last Queen of Korea. Chinese migrants hoping to make new lives as ‘paper children’ in America find their pasts - and their hopes for the future - embodied in the foxes that haunt the harbor in 1900s Angel Island. In the nine tales of Ninetails, acclaimed poet Sally Wen Mao reimagines the fox spirit from Asian folklore--a shapeshifter, shaman, and seductress - as an icon of vengeance,” #74231
Price: $18.00