Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations

"Ravishing flights of fantasy."-Priya Sharma, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of All the Fabulous Beasts and Ormeshadow"Carina Bissett's collection is a thing of wonder and beauty. It is a true representation of Carina herself: whimsical, visceral, lovely, and fierce. You can hear women's voices screaming while roses fall from their lips. Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations is a triumph."-Mercedes M. Yardley, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Little Dead RedIn this powerful debut, Carina Bissett explores the liminal spaces between the magical and the mundane, horror and humor, fairy tales and fabulism. A young woman discovers apotheosis at the intersection of her cross-cultural heritage. A simulacrum rebels against her coding to create a new universe of her own making. A poison assassin tears the world apart in the relentless pursuit of her true love-the one person alive who can destroy her. Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations erases expectations, forging new trails