Death by a thousand cuts : stories / Shashi Bhat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bhat, Shashi, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

206 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2024]

Summary:

"In this dazzling collection of stories, characters confront the painful absurdities and everyday horrors that come with being a woman. A writer discovers that her ex-boyfriend has published a novel about their breakup. An immunocompromised woman falls in love. A Reddit post about a man's habit of grabbing his girlfriend's breasts prompts a dark confession. A teenager contends with an unsettling shift at home after her beautiful mother has a disfiguring accident. A child-free woman goes on a date with a man who tests her boundaries. A college student vows to end things with her aspiring geneticist boyfriend, who wishes she had blue eyes. And when a woman unexpectedly begins to lose her hair, she embarks on an increasingly nightmarish search for answers. The characters in Death by a Thousand Cuts seek connection while facing longing, fear, rage, and the impossible expectations placed on women. With bracing honesty and a skewering wit, these stories boldly wrestle with themes of illness, pain, desire, bodily autonomy, and their inescapable impacts on a woman's relationships with others and with herself."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Dealbreaker

Death by a thousand cuts

Chicken & egg

What you can live without

Indian cooking

We're all in this alone

Giantess

Her ex writes a novel

Am I the asshole.

Other Format:

Online version: Bhat, Shashi, 1983- Death by a thousand cuts.

ISBN:

9780771095115

0771095112

OCLC:

1384442328