A young woman enters a house and doesn’t leave until after she’s long dead. A college student takes a summer job and learns to teleport through bodies of water. The sister of a suicide victim finds herself on a train that brings her nightmares to life. A girl with a unique power tries to prevent an apocalypse from overtaking her town. THE ILLUSTRATED WOMAN is a collection that follows women in situations of hazard. The frame narrative of the book features a woman at a weekend carnival who allows her customers to gain new perspective by looking at her tattoos. Through these images on the Illustrated Woman’s skin, her customers’ eyes are opened to the many ways in which women strive to exist, to prevail, and to survive.