Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic by Tobi Ogundiran

Winner of the British Fantasy AwardFinalist for the World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Locus Awards "Vivid and twisted, ironic and stirring, the varied stories in the collection are told with verve. Ogundiran's prose has a warm, enthusiastic vitality." -The New York TimesFrom Shirley Jackson award-nominated author Tobi Ogundiran, comes a highly anticipated debut collection of stories full of magic and wonder and breathtaking imagination!In "The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library" -- featured in Levar Burton Reads -- a hapless salesman flees the otherworldly librarian hell-bent on retrieving her lost library book."The Tale of Jaja and Canti" sees Ogundiran riffing off of Pinocchio. But this wooden boy doesn't seek to become real. Wanting to be loved, he journeys the world in search of his mother-an ancient and powerful entity who is best not sought out."The Goatkeeper's Harvest" contains echoes of Lovecraft, where a young mother living on a farm finds that goats have broken into her ba