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Skin Folk (Misc)
Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0446678031
Publisher: Warner Aspect
Price: $12.95
Reader Rating: Not rated
Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson

Description: OF DOPPELGÄNGERS, DUPPIES, AND DEADS...
"Tan-Tan and Dry Bone": "Duppy Dead Town is where people go when life boof them, when hope left them and happiness cut she eye 'pon them and strut away..."
"Slow Cold Chick": A strange horror hatches out of an empty fridge—and a strange wonder hatches out of an empty life...
"A Habit of Waste": "I was nodding off on the streetcar home from work when I saw the woman—wearing the body I used to have..."
"Ganger: Ball Lightning": Their passion was all that kept them together—until the day that passion wanted a life of its own...
"Greedy Choke Puppy": "Inside my skin I was just one big ball of fire, and Lord, the night air feel nice and cool on the flame! When your youth start to leave you, you have to steal more from somebody who still have plenty..."

"Throughout the Caribbean [there are] stories about people who aren't what they seem. Skin gives these folk their human shape. When the skin comes off, their true selves emerge. And whatever the burden their skin bears, once they remove it, skin folk can fly..."
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