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Weird Black Girls: Stories
Reader Score
63%
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Critic Reviews
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Belletrist Book Club
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- Publish Date: Apr 16th, 2024
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.60in - 1.10in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9781668018859
- Categories: • Literary• African American & Black - General• Science Fiction - General
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Praise for this book
"Elwin Cotman is a brilliant writer, full stop, and Weird Black Girls is his best book yet. Essential reading." --Elizabeth Hand, author of A Haunting on the Hill and Generation Loss
"Elwin Cotman's fiction is genius. Weird Black Girls is full of wry, fantastical twists that are always surprising, always illuminating. I'm enraptured by his writing, his every paragraph rich in wisdom and wit, his stories somehow rough and refined both, a brilliant mix of perversity and common sense, of the sacred and the profane."--Timothy Schaffert, author of The Swan Gondola
"An astounding collection from a rare talent."--Booklist, starred review
"[Cotman] utilizes magical conceits and pop culture references to probe America's legacy of racism in this striking collection...The distinctive and troubled characters make these stories stand out. Cotman's versatile talents are on full display." --Publishers Weekly
"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."--Gizmodo