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Lisa Goldstein is the National Book Award-winning of The Red Magician and The Uncertain Places. She has published eleven novels and two short fiction collections, including Dark Cities Underground, The Alchemist’s Door, and Travellers in Magic. Her short fiction has appeared in such magazines as Interzone and Asimov’s Science Fiction, and in anthologies including The Norton Book of Science Fiction and The Year’s Best Fantasy series. Goldstein is also a founding member of the women’s speculative fiction co-operative the Brazen Hussies. She lives in Oakland, California.
Praise for Ivory Apples
A Morning Star Best Book of 2019
“An absorbing fantasy about the power of art, family secrets—and
obsession. Ivy and her sisters have a secret. Their Great-Aunt
Maeve is actually the reclusive author Adela Madden, who wrote
Ivory Apples, a book that still, many years after publication,
inspires a steady stream of fan mail. And some of those fans can be
obsessive. That secret only becomes more urgent for Ivy when,
wandering in the woods at Maeve's house, she stumbles upon a secret
grove full of sprites, one of whom steps into her. So when a woman
named Kate Burden strikes up a friendship with the girls and starts
insinuating herself into their lives—and talking about how much she
loves Ivory Apples—Ivy is immediately suspicious. But Kate's
intentions are far more sinister than even Ivy suspects, and Piper,
the sprite living inside her, is too much an agent of chaos to
help. Soon Ivy and her sisters are plunged into a nightmare, and
the cost of keeping Maeve's secret proves to be greater than they
could have imagined. Goldstein (Weighing Shadows, 2015, etc.) has
crafted a dark, suspenseful tale in which the power of the faery
world is appealingly disruptive and dangerous. The dreamlike
quality of portions of the book sometimes works to undercut the
impact of genuinely traumatic events, but overall the story is
gripping and unusual enough to keep the reader invested. This dark,
eerie tale about the lengths people will go for a taste of magic
will keep readers guessing until the end.”
—Kirkus
“Ivory Apples is a haunting story of what a classic fantasy work
can do for and to its readers and its creator; on the other, it’s a
pretty wonderful, clear-eyed, and unsentimental fantasy novel
entirely on its own terms.”
—Locus
“As a heroine, Ivy is strong and stubborn in the face of adversary
and shines through with wit and resilience, coming of age in the
most difficult of circumstances and suddenly finding herself
responsible for a young family while fleeing for her life and
sanity. She shows intelligence and resourcefulness beyond her young
years and is a heroine of the time.”
—British Fantasy Society
“Ivory Apples is a legendary fantasy novel of the great-nieces of
their Great-Aunt Adela, almost as celebrated and mysterious as the
book itself, and the charming superfan Kate Burden—a sort of wicked
Mary Poppins on the dogged hunt for hidden magic But magic has
always its own desires, far beyond any fan's dream.”
—Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn and Summerlong.
“Neil Gaiman hasn't written anything half as good as Ivory Apples .
. . If you enjoyed books such as The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang,
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente, or War for the Oaks by Emma
Bull, you'll love Ivory Apples.”
—Little Red Reviewer
“It’s great, I loved it, you will also love it.”
—Tor.com
“Ivory Apples is a haunting story of what a classic fantasy work
can do for and to its readers and its creator; on the other, it’s a
pretty wonderful, clear-eyed, and unsentimental fantasy novel
entirely on its own terms, muse or no muse.”
—Gary K. Wolfe, Locus
“Ivory Apples is like a set of Russian Matryoshka dolls: stories
within stories within stories within stories that keep you reading
all the way to the bottom. I finished in eight hours and now want
to read it again. What a charming book in all senses of the
word.”
—Jane Yolen, author of The Emerald Circus
“A contemporary fantasy that is wholly original. I want to read it
again and again.”
—Ellen Klages, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Passing
Strange
“A powerful fairy tale set without compromise in the modern
world—the characters are convincingly real, and the magic is
genuinely enchanting and perilous.”
—Tim Powers, author of Alternate Routes and Down and Out in
Purgatory
“Lisa Goldstein’s work invariably surprises and inspires me. Ivory
Apples is no exception. A vivid tale of magic and its consequences,
filled with beauty and terror. Would you like a muse of your own?
Really? Be careful what you wish for.”
—Pat Murphy, author of The Wild Girls
“A fine, swift, effervescent fantasy.”
—John Crowley, author of Ka and Little, Big
“So many contemporary fantasists have learned from Lisa Goldstein’s
weird, wise, humane and graceful example; her books comprise the
best sort of magic school. Now, in Ivory Apples, she leads us deep
into a wondrous grove that only she could scry. Goldstein is a true
enchanter.”
—Andy Duncan, author of An Agent of Utopia
“Lisa Goldstein is writing some of the most exciting fantasy out
there. Ivory Apples is terrific.”
—Jo Walton, author of Among Others and Lent
“[T]his is a strong entry into the mysterious magical book genre.
A-/B+.”
—Wordnerdy
“Lisa Goldstein’s glimpse into the dark secrets of creativity casts
a lingering spell on the reader that no counter-spell can
completely dispel.”
—Bookshine and Readbows
“This is my first book by Lisa Goldstein but here is an author that
definitely needs to go on my auto buy list. I don’t know what it is
but here is an author that can make a book feel personal. Like this
book was written for me. It was, I swear it was. The writing is
really lovely, hypnotic almost.”
—Lynn’s Book Blog
“Lisa Goldstein has created a masterpiece of fantasy and
reality.”
—The Lovely Librarian
“Immersive, erudite and unsettling.”
—Morning Star
Praise for Lisa Goldstein
“She has given us the kind of magic and adventure that once upon a
time made us look for secret panels in the halls of wardrobes or
brush our teeth with a book held in front of our eyes, because we
couldn’t bear to put it down.”
—The New Yorker
“Lisa Goldstein is the perfect, born storyteller. Her story pulls
you in and wraps you round, and it is hard to think of anything
else until it is over.”
—Diana Wynne Jones
“Lisa Goldstein’s work deserves to be celebrated along with that of
Alice Walker and Shirley Jackson.”
—Lucius Shepard
“[Goldstein] never writes the same type of story twice, and she
never disappoints.”
—Mark Graham, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Praise for The Uncertain Places
“Goldstein’s complex and ingenious plot transplants the forest
realm of European folktale, where witches grant wishes with strings
attached and you’d better be careful which frog you kiss, into the
sun-drenched hills of Northern California in the 1970, and
beyond.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
“An exquisitely beautiful, eerily compelling modern fairy
tale.”
—Library Journal, starred review
“Exemplary . . . Goldstein is one of fantasy’s most reliable
practitioners, and a new novel from her is always a cause for
celebration.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“The Uncertain Places continued to surprise me at every page and,
as a writer, filled me with raw, disgraceful envy: Boy I wish I’d
thought of this one.”
—Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn and Summmerlong
“Lisa Goldstein is back and at the top of her game.”
—Shelf Awareness
“The arrival of a new Goldstein fantasy is a major cause for
rejoicing. And The Uncertain Places does not disappoint.”
—Charlie Jane Anders, io9
“[The Uncertain Places] combines all the things that I like best
about Goldstein’s work: great, believable characters; a
well-defined setting (this time it’s 1970s Berkeley); and subtle
magic that plays by the rules.”
—Charles de Lint, Fantasy & Science Fiction
“A gripping story that twists with compelling dream logic;
Goldstein’s fairy-tale family radiate believable unreality, and the
faerie realm contained herein evinces the perfect mix of terror and
attraction.”
—Cory Doctorow
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