Women I know / Katerina Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Katerina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Australia--Fiction.

Australia.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

x, 246 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Pymble, NSW : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Australia, 2022.

Summary:

A young woman tries to cheat her algorithm, creating a wholesome online persona while her 'real' life dissipates. A grandmother speaks to her granddaughter through the fog of generations. Two lovers divide over alternative meat options. A factory worker fits eyes in companion dolls until she is called on to install her own. The women I know are sharp, absurd, sly, wrong, wry, repressed, hungry, horny, bold, envious, dominating, uncertain, overdetermined, underpaid, bored, smart, crystalizing, themselves.

Contents:

Glitches in the algorithm

Meat alternatives for the motherland: a review

Orchestra of animals

Constellation in the left eye

A dog's world

Intermission I: all the stories I started but never finished because of the time-restrictive and distracting nature of the gig economy

A tight schedule

All noise through the fog will be forgiven

Women I know

The shape of

Preparation

Intermission II: on the mythology in the room (field notes)

Fertile soil

Times you let anger slip on your throat

Two hundred and one days of forests burning

When the river floods our house

As the nation still mourns

Notes on these stories

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region)

ISBN:

9781761106811

1761106813

OCLC:

1310261552