Black Pearls, a Faerie Strand

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Written by Louise Hawes

Tuesday, 01 April 2008 21:52

Black Pearls, a Faerie Strand

by Louise Hawes

· Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

· Hardcover: 224 pages

· Pub date: May 19, 2008

· ISBN-10: 0618747974

· ISBN-13: 978-0618747979

· Price: $16.00

“. . . and they lived happily ever after.” Remember the fairy tales you put away after you found that no princess is as beautiful as common sense and happy endings are just the beginning? Well, the old tales are back, and they’ve grown up! Black Pearls brings you the stories of your childhood, told in a way you’ve never heard before. Instead of lulling you to sleep, they’ll wake you up to the haunting sadness that waits just inside the windows of a gingerbread cottage, the passion that fuels a witch’s flight, and the heartache that comes, again and again, at the stroke of midnight. Make no mistake: these stories are as dark as human nature itself. But they shine, too, lit with the fire of our dreams and our hunger for magic.
Louise Hawes, who lives in Pittsboro and taught the short story course at the Network's fall conference, is the author of an adult fiction collection and many novels for young readers. She is a faculty member of the Vermont College MFA in Writing program, and also teaches at Meredith College's Focusing on Form, a summer writing workshop for women. She has always loved fairy tales and says that "'Black Pearls"' was written for readers of any age who dance without looking at the clock.

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