# The Pelican Child

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- Book: [The Pelican Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/joy-williams/the-pelican-child) ([The Pelican Child.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joy-williams/the-pelican-child.md))
- Authors: [Joy Williams](https://www.bookquiver.com/joy-williams)
- Publisher: Tuskar Rock Press
- ISBN: 978-18-0522-857-8
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2025-12-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Lauded as the best story writer of our time, Joy Williams returns with a taut collection that responds to our modern dilemmas with her signature dry wit and deftness of touch. In sinister and shifting landscapes, we meet souls lost and found: from the twin heiresses of a dirty industrial fortune, who must commit a violent act in recompense for their family's deeds, to a newly grown man who still revolves in a dreamscape of his childhood boarding-school innocence, to the " pelican child", who lives with the bony, ill-tempered Baba Yaga in a little hut on chicken legs. For readers of Lorrie Moore, Mary Gaitskill and George Saunders, these haunted stories examine the instincts separating us from the beastly and the divine.