Dead Girl Driving and Other Devastations

<p>Ravishing flights of fantasy.-Priya Sharma Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of <em>All the Fabulous Beasts</em> and <em>Ormeshadow</em></p><p><br></p><p>Carina Bissett's collection is a thing of wonder and beauty. It is a true representation of Carina herself: whimsical visceral lovely and fierce. You can hear women's voices screaming while roses fall from their lips. <em>Dead Girl Driving and Other Devastations</em> is a triumph.-Mercedes M. Yardley Bram Stoker Award-winning author of <em>Little Dead Red</em></p><p><br></p><p>In this powerful debut Carina Bissett explores the liminal spaces between the magical and the mundane horror and humor fairy tales and fabulism. A young woman discovers apotheosis at the intersection of her cross-cultural heritage. A simulacrum rebels against her coding to create a new universe of her own making. A poison assassin tears the world apart in the relentless pursuit of her true love-the one person alive who can destroy her. <em>Dead Girl Driving and Other Devastations</em> erases expectations forging new trails on the map of contemporary fiction. </p><p><br></p><p>Includes an introduction by Julie C. Day author of <em>Uncommon Miracles</em> and <em>The Rampant</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Carina Bissett is one of my favorite speculative authors writing today-magic and myth horror and revenge wonder and hope. Her stories are original lyrical and haunting-Shirley Jackson mixed with Ursula LeGuin and a dash of Neil Gaiman. An amazing collection of stories. -Richard Thomas author of <em>Spontaneous Human Combustion</em> a Bram Stoker Award finalist</p>