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Skin Folk
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
Cover artistMark Harrison
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, horror
PublisherWarner Aspect
Publication placeUnited States
Published in English
2001
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages272
ISBN0-446-67803-1
OCLC46975003
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 21
LC ClassPR9199.3.H5927 S58 2001

Skin Folk is a story collection by Jamaican-Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson, published in 2001. Winner of the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Story Collection, it was also selected in 2002 for the New York Times Summer Reading List and was one of the New York Times Best Books of the Year.[1]

  1. ^ Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads, Warner Books, 2003.

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