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Kirby has mastered the art of short fictionA stunning collection from a writer whose talent and creativity seem boundless
NPR
Kirby takes joy in subverting the readers expectations at every turn Her characters might be nave even reckless but they arent about to be victims Theyre strong and brave and nearly always capable of rescuing themselves
New York Times Book Review
Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny warm and furious stories of women at their breaking points from Hellenic times to today
Cassandra may have seen the future but it doesnt mean shes resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows In this ebullient collection virgins escape from being sacrificed witches refuse to be burned whores arent ashamed and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers Gwen E Kirby experiments with found structuresa Yelp review a WikiHow articlewhich her fierce irreverent narrators push against showing how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves When these women tell the stories of their triumphs as well as their pain they emerge as funny angry loud horny lonely strong protagonists who refuse to be secondary characters a moment longer From The Best and Only Whore of Cym Hyfryd 1886 to the Midwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories Kirby is playing and laughing with the women who have come before her and they are telling her we have always been this way You just had to know where to look
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