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02224aam a2200289 i 4500 001 50E9AAE2084911EFAA6956CE2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240502010040 008 240409s2024 nyu e 000 1 eng 010 $a 2024003562 020 $a 1668018853 020 $a 9781668018859 035 $a (OCoLC)1429146431 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c BLP $d BLP $d OCLCQ $d LE# $d SILO 100 1 $a Cotman, Elwin, $d 1984- $e author. 240 10 $a Weird black girls (Compilation) 245 10 $a Weird black girls : $b stories / $c Elwin Cotman. 250 $a First Scribner trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Scribner, $c 2024. 300 $a vii, 310 pages ; $c 22 cm 505 00 $t Weird Black Girls. $t Reunion -- $t Owen -- $t Triggered -- $t Things I Never Learned in Caitlin Clarke's Intro to Acting Class -- $t Tournament Arc -- $t Weird Black Girls. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher 941 $a 3 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240503010602.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240502012121.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240502010600.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=50E9AAE2084911EFAA6956CE2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search