The Sea Gives Up the Dead: Stories

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DEBUT AUTHOR, MOLLY OLGUN brings us THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD, a collection of stories sprinkled into the soil of fairy tales, left to take root and grow wild there.  

"A wunderkammer of beauty and sorrow."- Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

"Witty, witchy, darkly brilliant"--Andrea Barrett, author of Natural History and Ship Fever

"Fantastical, queer, wildly inventive stories."--Austin Carter, Pocket Books Shop  

A lovesick nanny slays a dragon. The devil tries to save her mother. A girl drowns and becomes a saint. Three kids plot to blow up their dad, a grieving mother sails the sea to find her son's grave, a scientist brings a voice to life, and a mermaid falls into the power of a witch. Here, historical fiction, horror, and fantasy tangle together in a queer garden of love, grief, and longing.