Book description
When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway 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. Karen
Joy Fowler is the author of four earlier novels and two short story
collections. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, was a New York Times Notable
Book, as was her second novel, The Sweetheart Season. Fowler's short
story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999. Fowler
and her husband, who have two grown children, live in Davis and Santa
Cruz, California.
