Format:
Eaudiobook, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording, Electronic Resources
Author:
Cotman, Elwin
Title:
Weird Black Girls [electronic resource] / Elwin Cotman
Publisher, Date:
[S.I.] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2024.
Summary:
From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black—a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction. A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an activist community. An aloof young man finds himself living through his lover's memories. And a day of LARPing takes a cosmic turn. In each of the seven stories in this collection, characters pursue their obsessions on paths to glory and destruction while around them their worlds twist and warp, oscillating between reality and impossibility. On display throughout is Cotman's ability to reveal truths about the human experience—about friendship, love, betrayal, bitterness—through whimsy, horror, and fantasy. Elegiac in tone, imaginative and humorous in their execution, the character-driven stories in Weird Black Girls challenge, incite, and entertain.
Subjects:
Fiction
African American Fiction
Literature
Science Fiction
Other Author:
Abbott-Pratt, Joniece
Wheeler, Jade
Fouhey, James
Lawrence, Emily
Santana, André
Woodson, Landon
Overdrive Inc.
Notes:
From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black—a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction. A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an activist community. An aloof young man finds himself living through his lover's memories. And a day of LARPing takes a cosmic turn. In each of the seven stories in this collection, characters pursue their obsessions on paths to glory and destruction while around them their worlds twist and warp, oscillating between reality and impossibility. On display throughout is Cotman's ability to reveal truths about the human experience—about friendship, love, betrayal, bitterness—through whimsy, horror, and fantasy. Elegiac in tone, imaginative and humorous in their execution, the character-driven stories in Weird Black Girls challenge, incite, and entertain.
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ISBN:
9781797172415
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
1744404
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
0
# System items in:
0
Medium:
[electronic resource]