All The Names They Used For God

"The stories in this collection read like fairy tales – Brothers Grimm, not Disney. Anjali Sachdeva spins wondrous universes, governed by unknowable, capricious forces. A homesteader on the American frontier is drawn into an underground world. Genetically engineered septuplets succumb, one by one, to illness. Aliens take over the Earth – they come mostly in peace but demand that humans trade their hands for metal claws. Sachdeva draws characters with such empathy and precision that they pop off the page and take up residence in your brain – months after reading, I remember these stories as if they were dreams."