Strange Beautiful

From debut fiction writer Carla Crujido comes a delicately intertwined, fairytale-inspired collection of short stories.

Part vivid historical drama, part melancholy fever dream, The Strange Beautiful centers on Mount Vernon Apartments in Spokane, Washington, offering a glimpse into the lives of ten tenants over a period of one hundred years.

In the opening story, "The Songbird," we meet the building...