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By Ivan E. Coyote

Close to Spider Man marks the debut of an exhilarating new literary expertise: a suite of hooked up tales whose girl narrators hunt down lives for themselves amidst the lonely, breathtaking panorama of the Yukon. The younger ladies in Ivan Coyote's deeply own tales want to make a holiday from their situations, however the North is of their bones: so is their connections to family members, neighbors, and different girls. just like the protagonist within the identify tale, a waitress whose makes an attempt to aid a tender co-worker saddled with a lunatic father unearths her operating throughout rooftops and mountaineering ladders; through getting with regards to Spider guy, she will get toward freedom.

Startling of their intimacy, the tales in Close to Spider Man make up a relocating scrapbook of what it is prefer to be a tender queer girl within the North, trips imbued with the colors of a prescient sexuality and a good center.

Runner-up, Danuta Gleed Award for Short-Fiction

(arsenalpulp.com 2005-11-10)

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