“I could not be more excited by this haunting, lush, genre-leaping collection—reading it, I am reminded of how I felt when I first encountered Karen Russell's St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. Gorgeously written, imaginative, startling—The Sea Gives Up the Dead is a wunderkammer of beauty and sorrow.”

—Carmen Maria Machado, Judge

The Sea Gives Up The Dead is a collection of family stories sprinkled into the soil of fairy tale and left to take root and grow wild there. These are stories about my family; these are stories about dragons and apocalypses and saints and cold bowls full of dead puppies. These stories are about family things: queerness, love, grief, forgiveness, unforgiveness, and longing.

“Witty, witchy, darkly brilliant, Molly Olguín’s metamorphic tales radiate insight and intelligence, exploding into visions as fresh and surprising as those of Angela Carter or Octavia Butler, Jeanette Winterson or Kirstin Valdez Quade.”

—Andrea Barrett, author of Natural History and Ship Fever