Also from A.A. Balaskovits
“Magic for Unlucky Girls is that rarest of things: a book that doesn’t remind
me of anything else I’ve read … A wonderful, truly original work.”
— Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
“To say that the stories in Magic For Unlucky Girls are unsettling is an understatement.
In these tales, A. A. Balaskovits has created characters and worlds we think we know,
and then destroys our expectations-unflinchingly, with no gory or sordid detail spared,
and often with alarming violence. Yet, despite kicking us out of our collective comfort
zone, these stories go down like pleasant poison, with language that moves seamlessly
between brutal starkness and hypnotic lyricism. Balaskovits takes the stories that form
the core of us from childhood and reshapes them into something dark and unfamiliar.
Magic For Unlucky Girls is a bold debut from a bold author, and make no mistake—
these are stories that matter, and that will stick with you long after you’ve read them.”
— William Jablonsky, author of The Indestructible Man: Stories and The Clockwork Man
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