Something Rich and Strange

This was a beautiful book, both story and art. Froud made fifty drawings and gave them to several authors to create a story inspired by the art. This is McKillip's result. It explores the interaction of humans with the realm of Faeries under the sea. This book is definitely a mood piece. Lots of description of surroundings, especially underwater, and lots of emotions or lack thereof. It's a short book, maybe just a little longer than a novella, so it works. If it was another hundred pages, I think I would have been longing for more action. This book won the Mythopoeic Award for 1995.

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