{"product_id":"skin-folk-book-nalo-hopkinson-9780446678032","title":"Skin Folk","description":"\u003cb\u003eWorld Fantasy Award Winner: Fiction that combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling, by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Roads\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eSkin Folk\u003c\/i\u003e, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like Precious, in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In A Habit of Waste, a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she's shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. In The Glass Bottle Trick, the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husband's superstitions--to horrifying consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hopkinson's unique and vibrant sense of pacing and dialogue sets a steady beat for stories that illustrate why she received the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, \u003ci\u003eSkin Folk\u003c\/i\u003e is not to be missed.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49891430793489,"sku":"CIN0446678031A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50125335822609,"sku":"CIN0446678031G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51326068457745,"sku":"CIN0446678031VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0446678031.jpg?v=1750878792","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/skin-folk-book-nalo-hopkinson-9780446678032","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}