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Sarah Canary
A Literary Fiction Novel by Karen Joy Fowler
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- 1870s Washington Territory,
- Mythic Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Historical fiction with surreal, mythic twists
- Unlikely friendships that upend expectations
- Asylum escapes and wild misadventures in the 1870s Pacific Northwest
Two unlikely people form an unexpected bond in bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler’s captivating historical novel—a New York Times Notable Book.
When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort “the ugliest woman he could imagine” away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying.
Humor and horror, history and myth dance cheek to cheek in this Jack London meets L. Frank Baum world. Here is a work that manages to be at the same time (and often in the same sentence) dark and deep and fun.
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