Sea Gives Up the Dead

INDIES INTRODUCE SELECTION DEBUT AUTHOR, MOLLY OLGUÍN brings us THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD, a collection of stories sprinkled into the soil of fairy tales, left to take root and grow wild there. "A wunderkammer of beauty and sorrow."- Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House "Witty, witchy, darkly brilliant"-Andrea Barrett, author of Natural History and Ship Fever "Fantastical, queer, wildly inventive stories."-Austin Carter, Pocket Books Shop A lovesick nanny slays a dragon. The devil tries to save her mother. A girl drowns and becomes a saint. Three kids plot to blow up their dad, a grieving mother sails the sea to find her son's grave, a scientist brings a voice to life, and a mermaid falls into the power of a witch. Here, historical fiction, horror, and fantasy tangle together in a queer garden of love, grief, and longing.