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Sarah Canary

Sarah Canary

by Karen Joy Fowler
Paperback
Age range: 18 to null Publication Date: 03/08/2004

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Two unlikely people form an unexpected bond in bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler's captivating historical novel-a New York Times Notable Book.

When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort "the ugliest woman he could imagine" away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower.

In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying.

"Powerfully imagined...Drop everything and follow Sarah Canary....Humor and horror, history and myth dance cheek to cheek in this Jack London meets L. Frank Baum world....Here is a work that manages to be at the same time (and often in the same sentence) dark and deep and fun."-The Washington Post Book World
ISBN:
9780452286474
9780452286474
Category:
Historical Fiction
Age range:
18 to null
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-08-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
202x133x18mm
Weight:
0.26kg
Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of three short story collections and seven novels, including the forthcoming Booth.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014, won the PEN/Faulkner Prize and has sold over half a million copies.

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