Broken Eye Books is publishing the serial novel Hairsbreadth by Craig Laurance Gidney, a contemporary fairy tale in the tradition of Victor LaValle's The Changeling and Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird.
Seventeen-year-old Zelda has always been isolated, born with deep dark skin and fast-growing hair that seems to have a mind of its own, and moving from place to place with her grandmother. But when the two of them move to the remote eastern shore town of Shimmer, her power grows in strange new ways—she can hear and see the dead, which proves useful to her grandmother’s folk medicine business. Zelda thinks she has a gift at first. But she soon discovers that there is a dark side to her powers.
Hairsbreadth is a dark retelling of the fairy tale "Rapunzel," steeped in African-American folklore, and a coming-of-age tale full of Black Girl Magic.
The story begins today over at Eyedolon.
Seventeen-year-old Zelda has always been isolated, born with deep dark skin and fast-growing hair that seems to have a mind of its own, and moving from place to place with her grandmother. But when the two of them move to the remote eastern shore town of Shimmer, her power grows in strange new ways—she can hear and see the dead, which proves useful to her grandmother’s folk medicine business. Zelda thinks she has a gift at first. But she soon discovers that there is a dark side to her powers.
Hairsbreadth is a dark retelling of the fairy tale "Rapunzel," steeped in African-American folklore, and a coming-of-age tale full of Black Girl Magic.
The story begins today over at Eyedolon.
Craig Laurance Gidney is the author of the collections Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories and Skin Deep Magic, the novella The Nectar of Nightmares, and the novels Bereft and A Spectral Hue. His work has won the Moonbeam and IPPY Awards and been nominated for the Lambda Literary Award.
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