Veronica Schanoes

Shirley Jackson Award Winner: Novella, 2013 A Nebula Award finalist "Burning Girls", by Veronica Schanoes, is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educated by her grandmother as a healer and witch growing up in an increasingly hostile environment in Poland in the late nineteenth century. In addition to the natural danger of destruction by Cossacks, she must deal with a demon plaguing her family. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Burning Girls

Stef

"Learning and skill are things to be proud of; they are the stars that light the sky of one’s lifetime."


The story really give goosebumps. It's a long time I never read a good novella with witty and well written. Burning Girls that I found by accident when I was looking for light reading. 

The story are combined of Jewish folktore, a fairytale adaptation, historical accident, science fiction in horror and feminist. 

I will look forward for Veronica work's in future. I love her writing style and how she building up the story and plot with ending that i never expected.

Maggie Gordon

Damn, this is a FANTASTIC novella. Burning Girls is a retelling of a rather famous fairy tale in the context of the beginning of the Holocaust. Our main character is a Jewish witch trying to protect her family from the massive social and political upheavals going on at the time. Heartbreaking and eerie. Schanoes' piece is definitely worth your time.

an absolutely fantastic read that had the potential for a full-length novel.

i really enjoyed the combination of folklore and the modern for the time, the fantastical and the historical, and the way the author used it to create a tense, gloomy atmosphere. kept me on the edge of my seat all throughout.

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