Dead girls, and other stories, Emily Geminder
Type
Label
Dead girls, and other stories, Emily Geminder
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
short stories
Main title
Dead girls
Oclc number
967772988
Responsibility statement
Emily Geminder
Sub title
and other stories
Summary
Geminder's book showcases an acute sensitivity to worlds both inside and out. There's real delicacy to the craft but underneath all the skill is a shaking sense of purpose, and a great love of the brokenness and beauty of humanity. This is a substantive, memorable debut." --Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake With lyric artistry and emotional force, Emily Geminder's debut collection charts a vivid constellation of characters fleeing their own stories. A teenage runaway and her mute brother seek salvation in houses, buses, the backseats of cars. Preteen girls dial up the ghosts of fat girls. A crew of bomber pilots addresses the sparks of villagers below. In Cambodia, four young women confuse themselves with the ghost of a dead reporter. And from India to New York to Phnom Penh, dead girls bothreal and fantastic appear again and again: as obsession, as threat, as national myth and collective nightmare
Table Of Contents
Houses -- 1-800-FAT-GIRL -- Coming to -- Phnom Penh -- Your village has been bombed -- Edie -- Choreograph -- Nausicaa -- Dead girls