Young Woman in a Garden: Stories by Delia Sherman

Trade paperback format. A long anticipated first collection of fabulous stories with ghosts, fairies, artists, and even a merman. Selected as one of Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year and recipient of 2 starred reviews. Part of Locus Recommended Books In her vivid and sly, gentle and wise long anticipated first collection, Delia Sherman takes seemingly insignificant moments in the lives of artists or sailors—the light out a window, the two strokes it takes to turn a small boat—and finds the ghosts haunting them, the magic surrounding them. Here are the lives that make up larger histories, here are tricksters and gardeners, faeries and musicians, all glittering and sparkling, finding beauty and hope and always unexpected, a touch of wild magic. “Real magic, right next door, indeed; each of the 14 stories in Young Woman in a Garden deals with some version of that equation, and it’s a testament to Sherman’s award-winning knack for fabulism that she pulls off such impossibilities wi