Elegies for Uncanny Girls / Jennifer Colville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colville, Jennifer, author.

Series:

Break away books.

Break away books

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Girls--Fiction.

Girls.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 pages).

Edition:

Break Away Book Club edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Unsettling and perceptive, these short stories challenge American girlhood in all its delusions, conflicting messages, and treacherous terrain. Wide- and wise-eyed, mysterious girls leave their realities behind for strange and slightly unreal places at the edges of the country. Alternatively they hover over their Midwestern homes in interior worlds of their own creation. The stories in Elegies for Uncanny Girls stand at a boundary where both the girls' bodies and their tales are either their own or laid claim to by the culture and characters that surround them. A young woman whose body continually shrinks and expands moves to Los Angeles to make a movie about tragic merpeople; bewildered and seeking guidance, a new mom strikes up a conversation with a woman with detachable hands; and spurred on by a new ally who might just be a figment of her imagination, a girl decides she can choose her own friends.

Contents:

Other mothers

Costume

Center

Caroline

Audra

Details

When Maggie thinks of Matt

Jill, or the big little lady

Dora

Winona.

Notes:

Includes book club guide.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253024367

0253024366

OCLC:

972641055