Shit Cassandra saw : stories / Gwen E. Kirby.
"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. From "The Best and Only Whore of Cym Hyfryd, 1886" to the "Midwestern Girl [who] is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories," Kirby is playing and laughing with the women who have come before her and they are telling her, we have always been this way. You just had to know where to look.we have always been this way. You just had to know where to look"-- Provided by publisher
Record details
- ISBN: 9780143136620
- ISBN: 0143136623
- Physical Description: 274 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, [2022]
- Copyright: 2022
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Genre: | Short stories. |
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- 7 of 7 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Indian Valley Public Library | Fiction Kirby (Text) | 39427103635207 | Fiction Room: Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Martin Library | Adults KIR Fiction (Text) | 33454005829155 | Reading Room Balcony | Available | - |
RACC | PS3611.I724 S48 2022 (Text) | 33624024965426 | Books | Available | - |
Southern Lehigh Public Library | FIC KIR (Text)
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This item was purchased in honor of an anonymous donor for their donation to the Southern Lehigh Public Library Helping Hands Campaign 2021-2022.
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30044100870825 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Dingman Township Library | PB F KIR (Text) | 30352101312303 | Paperback | Available | - |
Easton Main Library | KIRBY (Text) | 31901004571453 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hughes Library | F KIR (Text) | 32378005089935 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |