Book of exemplary women : stories / Diana Xin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xin, Diana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

233 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Portland, OR : Yesyes Books, [2025]

Summary:

In Book of Exemplary Women, Diana Xin's debut short story collection, a ghost is passed across three generations of women as they navigate unspoken regrets and unfulfilled desires. Teen girls grapple with grief as they face the end of childhood and other losses. Young lovers confront the future while old lovers excavate the past. Mothers and daughters perceive each other in new ways as time reshapes their relationship. Across different stages of life, women strain against the expectations that rule their lives with quiet rebellion, bending and breaking to find new forms large enough to contain all that they carry. Together, their voices resist erasure, tracing how women hold themselves and each other intact. To create the cracks that expand possibility and challenge limitations, Xin presents both realist stories and their shadows--distortions upon the same themes with elements of magic, from light-touch hauntings to imagined literary trysts. Her characters defy the erasure common to stories about women. When they step off the page, they do so with defiance, laughing and raging as they slip beyond reach.

Contents:

Here's the church, here's the steeple

The magnificent funerals of Grand Auntie Du

Intermission

Someone else

Home

Camp wish-song

Last night with the Brothers K

Sweet scoundrel

Dear Vlad

We lived like astronauts

Visiting hours

Joy comes in the morning.

ISBN:

9781946303097

1946303097

OCLC:

1559750898

Publisher Number:

90104032831