![]() ![]() ![]() Lanagan (Tender Morsels) casts the traditional selkie tale in a poetic yet deeply antiromantic form. Decades later, the jilted human women have all left the island, leaving the spell-struck men with their captive wives, who cannot always hide their yearning for the sea. ![]() Then suddenly the man’s outline sharpened within the seal.” She uses this power first to find herself a lover and then to take revenge on the people of Rollrock Island, who she believes have slighted her, providing each man with a supernaturally beautiful seal-woman (for a price). A head-blur parted from the body-blur some limbs came good, splitting from the main shine. In this powerful but grim tale set on a rugged, windswept island, an unlovely, embittered young woman discovers that she can magically pull human beings out of seals: “I drew each speck toward and into the man-shape at his center. ![]()
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