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Night-time Stories - cover

Night-time Stories

Yen-Yen Lu

Publisher: The Emma Press

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Summary

A child waits for the tooth fairy; a mother spends a night watching a recording of the previous night; two women face the ghosts that haunted their grandmothers. The nights in these ten stories are thick and substantial, ambiguous and alluring.

Eerie, magical, hushed and surprisingly alive, this anthology shows the night as a place where connections are made and daylit lives can be changed.
Available since: 10/27/2022.
Print length: 53 pages.

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