Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic

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 "e;The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library"e; -- featured in Levar Burton Reads -- a hapless salesman flees the otherworldly librarian hell-bent on retrieving her lost library book."e;The Tale of Jaja and Canti"e; sees Ogundiran riffing off of Pinocchio. But this wooden boy doesn't seek to become real. Wanting to be loved, he journeys the world in search of his mother-an ancient and powerful entity who is best not sought out."e;The Goatkeeper's Harvest"e; contains echoes of Lovecraft, where a young mother living on a farm finds that goats have broken into her barn and are devouring all her tubers. As she chases them off with a rake, a woman appears claiming the goats are her children, and that the young woman has killed one of them and must pay the price: a goat for a goat.These and other tales of the dark and fantastic await."e;Superb weird-fantasy fictions... an unfailing capacity for surprise."e; -Publishers Weekly, Top 10 Summer Read"e;These stories will captivate readers with their haunting atmosphere, confident voice, and immersive settings."e; -Becky Spratford, Booklist"e;Jackal, Jackal is a great showcase of Ogundiran's consistency and strengths of a storyteller and dark fabulist. Forget logic. These are stories you are meant to feel. Think Grimm by way of Amos Tutuola. Stephen King meets Cyprian Ekwensi."e; -Wole Talabi, Locus magazine"e;Ogundiran's tales revel in small moments that create big ripples. Jackal, Jackal is a collection of such stories, characters grasping at a wish in their own unique, earnest way. An exciting yet intimate collection from a writer who continues to surprise and delight."e; -Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Author of The Nameless Republic trilogy"e;Jackal, Jackal is an astonishing debut collection with real teeth."e; -Priya Sharma, Author of Pomegranates