Jackal, Jackal
Book description
From Shirley Jackson award-nominated author Tobi Ogundiran, comes a highly anticipated debut collection of stories full of magic and wonder and breathtaking imagination!
In "The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library" -- featured in Levar Burton Reads -- a hapless salesman flees the otherworldly librarian hell-bent on retrieving her lost library…
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1 author picked Jackal, Jackal as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Jackal Jackal is an entertaining collection of eighteen stories that includes two originals and sixteen reprints of relatively new stories, most of which are riffs on some classic fairytales or have the quality of such tales, by Nigerian author Tobi Ogundiran.
It’s a great showcase of Ogundiran’s consistency and strengths as a storyteller and dark fabulist. Every story is crafted to elicit a strong, visceral reaction. These are stories that you’re meant to feel. In my review for Locus Magazine, I said that you should think of this as The Brothers Grimm by way of Amos Tutuola. Or Stephen…
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