Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail

By Kelly Luce

Set in Japan, Luce's playful, tender stories—reminiscent of Haruki Murakami and Aimee Bender—tip into the fantastical, plumb the power of memory, and measure the human capacity to love. The award-winning narratives in this mesmerizing debut trace the lives of ex-pats, artists, and outsiders as they seek to find their place in the world. Hana Sasaki beguiles and surprises: stories include an oracular toaster, a woman who grows a tail, and a most unusual kind of sex reassignment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: A Strange Object
• Release date: Oct 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781941920978

Kelly Luce

Kelly Luce is the author of the prize-winning short-story collection Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail. She is a fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a contributing editor for Electric Literature. She lives in California.

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