6/28/2023 0 Comments So we can glow![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A love story begins over cabbages in a grocery store, and a laundress's life is consumed by her obsession with a baseball star. A woman luxuriates in a fantasy getaway to escape her past. Members of a cult form an unsettling chorus as they proclaim their adoration for the same man. On a hot July night, teenage girls sneak out of the house to meet their boyfriends by the train tracks. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZEĪ lush, glittering short story collection exploring female obsession and desire by an award-winning author Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller."įrom Kentucky to the California desert, these forty-two short stories - ranging from the 80's and 90's to present day - expose the hearts of girls and women in moments of obsessive desire and fantasy, wildness and bad behavior, brokenness and fearlessness, and more. ![]()
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