Description
Tender gathers Sofia Samatar’s early short fiction into a luminous collection of “weird and tender fabulations” that move between the intimate and the uncanny. Across stories that draw on scholarship, lived experience, and the strange logic of the world—or the void—characters confront love, loss, and the ways history and myth reshape what we think we know. With prose that is at once sharp and sumptuous, Samatar blends speculative invention with emotional clarity, creating narratives that feel both dreamlike and exacting. The collection’s central themes—memory, transformation, and the power of story to make meaning—offer a darkly beautiful meditation on how tenderness survives even in the most altered realities.
Available Editions
paperback
Small Beer Press
Published Apr 17, 2017
256 pages
ISBN: 9781618731272
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Tender by Sofia Samatar.