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Open this book to any page and find yourself enspelled by these lush, alchemical stories. Faced with the uncanny and the impossible, Rickert's protagonists are as painfully, shockingly, complexly human as the readers who will encounter them. Mothers, daughters, witches, artists, strangers, winged babies, and others grapple with deception, loss, and moments of extraordinary joy.
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"A few years ago Mary Rickert achieved the rare distinction of winning two World Fantasy Awards in one year, for a story and a collection. That story, 'Journey into the Kingdom,' is a highlight of this retrospective collection. . . . The strangeness of Rickert's fiction is more than balanced by her acute insights into families and disturbed minds."
Gary K. Wolfe, Chicago Tribune
"You Have Never Been Here is stupid good. There's no other way to say it. This collection of short stories is at once uniform and eclectic; the stories share threads--both thematic and aesthetic--that bind them together, but each story is clearly and uniquely its own thing. The book opens with the story of a woman slowly turning into a deer, a story that begs to be metaphorized but actually thrive
Hazel and Wren
"Mary Rickert's latest collection, You Have Never Been Here, packs a punch with stories that are quietly devastating and haunting in their strange imagery."
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