Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler

Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler

Two unlikely people form an unexpected bond in bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler's captivating historical novel--a New York Times Notable Book.

When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort the ugliest woman he could imagine away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower.

In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying.

Powerfully imagined.Drop everything and follow Sarah Canary.Humor and horror, history and myth dance cheek to cheek in this Jack London meets L. Frank Baum world.Here is a work that manages to be at the same time (and often in the same sentence) dark and deep and fun.--The Washington Post Book World

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ISBN 13	9780452286474
ISBN 10	0452286476
Title	Sarah Canary
Author	Karen Joy Fowler
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2004-08-03
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Winner of Bay Area Reviewers Association Best Fiction., Winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize.
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