Sexual predators are recast as lake creatures (“The Lake”), and werewolves choose cosmetic treatment to disguise their monthly changes (“Aftermoon”) Due craftily employs these shape-shifters to explore how humans embrace transformations in ourselves and one another, even when the result is monstrous. Publishers Weekly Starred Review: In these extraordinary tales, American Book Award–winner Due ( My Soul to Take) uses a clear-eyed view of history to explain (but never excuse) the present. With an Introduction by Nalo Hopkinson and an Afterword by Steven Barnes.
Featuring an award-winning novella and fifteen stories-one of which has never been published before-GHOST SUMMER: STORIES, is sure to both haunt and delight. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost into future scenarios that seem all too real and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness. Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening.
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