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What shall we do, all of us? all of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?
In these nine tales of transformation, what's real is what's imagined, and the seemingly ordinary gleams with the magic of possibility.
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Critical Praise for
Blood Roses
"Individual stories that are riveting and memorable…an overall collection that invites rereading."
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Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
"A strangely haunting collection of whimsy."
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KLIATT
"Lush as ever."
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Publishers Weekly
"Dark, fantastical dreams…will startle, provoke and fascinate."
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Booklist
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Kisses from Hell
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How Beautiful the Ordinary
A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had "an...
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Pretty Dead
People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want. Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But whether it is her eternal loneliness, the memory...
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