The incredible shrinking woman : essays / Athena Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, Athena, author.

Contributor:

Local Philadelphia: A Novel Idea Bookstore Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dixon, Athena.

Essays.

American essays.

essays.

Physical Description:

121 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ralston, Nebraska : Split Lip Press, [2020]

Summary:

"A quiet retelling of a life in the background, Athena Dixon's debut essay collection, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, is a gentle unpacking of the roles she learned to inhabit, growing up as a Black woman in a small Midwestern town, to avoid disruption. But after the implosion of the life she'd always wanted, Dixon must explore the implications of her desire to hide as she rebuilds herself in a world that expects freedom to look boisterous. As Dixon presses the bruises of her invisibility, these essays glide between the pages of fan fiction, the rush of new panties, down the rabbit hole of depression, and reemerge on the other side, speaking with the lived authority of a voice that, even when shaking, is always crystal clear."--Amazon

Contents:

A goddess makes platanos

The greater whole

Ordinary history

Native tongue

Two turntables and a microphone

Liturgy

Ready. Set. Go.

M.A.S.H.

Once upon an AOL

Things men have said to me (some of which are true)

Reader insert

50% off

Butterfingers

Skype sex and the single girl

Karaoke

The incredible shrinking woman

Fat girls take lovers, too

50 reasons to leave your lover (some of which are good)

Vagina, slightly used

A love supreme

Lakeshore

An imprint instead of a flash

Depression is a pair of panties.

ISBN:

9781952897030

1952897033

OCLC:

1200755454