Shit Cassandra saw : stories
Kirby, Gwen E.2022
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Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers. Gwen E. Kirby experiments with found structures - a Yelp review, a WikiHow article - which her fierce, irreverent narrators push against, showing how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves. When these women tell the stories of their triumphs as well as their pain, they emerge as funny, angry, loud, horny, lonely, strong protagonists who refuse be secondary characters a moment longer.
Main title:
Shit Cassandra saw : stories / Gwen E. Kirby.
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Imprint:
New York : Penguin Books, 2022.New York : Penguin Books, 2022.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780143136620 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
2577633