Weird black girls : stories / Elwin Cotman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cotman, Elwin, 1984- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Weird black girls (Compilation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Speculative fiction, American.

Genre:

short stories.

Fantasy fiction.

Horror fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

viii, 310 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Scribner trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC., 2024.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Switchin' Tree

Reunion

Owen

Triggered

Things I Never Learned in Caitlin Clarke's Intro to Acting Class

Tournament Arc

Weird Black Girls.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781668018859

1668018853

OCLC:

1384412218

Publisher Number:

99996405026