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

Karen Haber is the author of eight books, including Star Trek: Voyager - Bless the Beasts; writer of Science of the X-Men; and editor of J.R.R. Tolkien's Hugo-nominated essay anthology. Mediations on Middle-earth, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and a number of anthologies. She writes book reviews for Locus magazine and profiles artists for publications such as Realms of Fantasy. Haber and her husband, Robert Silverberg, live in Oakland, California.

Robert Zohrab is a digital artist and designer from Australia whose work has been featured on book covers and corporate brochures. Among his clients are the Manta recording business, for which he designed album covers and advertising material, and ibooks, inc., for whom he provided cover images for new trade editions of Brian Aldiss's landmark Helliconia trilogy, among others. Darrel Anderson, a digital-art pioneer, rose from the underground comix scene to found braid.com, one of the first and most popular art Web sites. He worked on the animated CGI conclusion of the 1995 film Johnny Mnemonic with members of the BRAID collective and PCA Graphics.

A total of 48 of his images may be found on the Science Fiction Channel's website, and he is featured in Dick Jude's Fantasy Art of the New Millennium II. His work has won top prizes in a number of worldwide competitions, including Pixar's call for images and MacWorld's Macintosh Masters. Anderson is a programmer and an artist who works on both sides of the screen. GroBoto, one of his most recent creations, is an interactive art tool that allows children to explore their creativity while also allowing artists to further theirs.

Braid.com is where you can see and try out Anderson's work.

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ISBN 13	9780452286474
ISBN 10	0452286476
Title	Sarah Canary
Author	Karen Joy Fowler
Condition	Unavailable
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.
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.