Six historical stories with a dash of magic—transporting you to a middle-class Villa outside of Napoli infested with rats. To the walled city of Kowloon, Hong Kong. To a stuffy scriptorium in Oxford and the basement of a Czech Opera House. From the red dirt roads of colonial Sierra Leone, to the narrow vantage point of an Anchoress’s tiny cell. All within 60 pages.
Allison Epstein earned her M.F.A. in fiction from Northwestern University and a B.A. in creative writing and Renaissance literature from the University of Michigan. A Michigan native, she now lives in Chicago, where she enjoys good theater, bad puns, and fancy jackets. She is the author of A Tip for the Hangman, Let the Dead Bury the Dead, and Fagin the Thief. You can find her on Substack at rapscallison.substack.com.
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