Shit Cassandra saw : stories / Gwen E. Kirby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirby, Gwen E., author.

Contributor:

Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

274 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, [2022]

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.

Contents:

Shit Cassandra saw that she didn't tell the Trojans because at that point fuck them anyway

A 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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Kirby, Gwen E. Shit Cassandra saw.

ISBN:

9780143136620

0143136623

OCLC:

1246143246