Radium Girl

**Finalist for the 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Speculative Fiction**
**Gold Winner of the 2021 Foreword INDIES Award for Short Stories**
**Shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Award for Short Fiction**
 

Radium Girl is a collection full of dark wonder that explores the boundaries of love, death, loneliness and justice. In these twelve deft stories, Sofi Papamarko introduces a cast of unforgettable characters: Margie and Lu, teenaged conjoined twins; Rosie who cruises funerals; Pete the predatory magician; the subconscious mind of Marie Curie; Elda the Radium Girl and many more. With pitch-perfect writing, Papamarko shows us how human beings cope, break and triumph in the face of often unbearable circumstances.