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Author:

Kirby, Gwen E., author.

Title:

Shit Cassandra saw : stories / Gwen E. Kirby.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

274 pages ; 20 cm

Subject:

Women--Fiction.
Short stories.

Contents:

We handle it -- Acknowledgments. few normal things that happen a lot -- Jerry's Crab Shack: One star -- Boudicca, Mighty Queen of the Britains, contact hitter and utility outfielder, AD 61 -- Mt. Adams at Mar Vista -- Friday night -- Here preached his last -- First woman hanged for witchcraft in Wales, 1594 -- Casper -- An apology of sorts to June -- Mary Read is a crossdressing pirate, the raging seas, 1720 -- The Disneyland of Mexico -- For a good time, call -- Nakano Takeko is fatally shot, Japan, 1868 -- Inishmore -- Marcy breaks up with herself -- The best and only whore of Cwm Hyfryd, Patagonia, 1886 -- Midwestern girl is tired of appearing in your short stories -- Scene in a public park at dawn, 1892 -- How to retile your bathroom in 6 easy steps! -- We handle it -- Acknowledgments.

Summary:

"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 Cwm 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."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0143136623
9780143136620

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1246143246

LCCN:

2021018004

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

YUPD232 -- DeWitt Community Library (De Witt)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

KJPF566 -- Fort Madison Public Library (Fort Madison)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GMPD771 -- Pleasant Hill Public Library (Pleasant Hill)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)