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Name: Burning Girls
Author: Veronica Schanoes
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Genres/categories: Fantasy, Short Stories, Historical fiction, Fiction, Horror

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Winner of the Shirley Jackson award for Novella in 2013.

Burning Girls, by Veronica Schanoes, is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educated by her grandmother as a healer and witch growing up in an increasingly hostile environment in Poland in the late nineteenth century. In addition to the natural danger of destruction by Cossacks, she must deal with a demon plaguing her family.
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