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Book

Peach pit : sixteen stories of unsavory women

Call Number

  • FICTION PEAC (CEN)

Edition

First US edtion.

Publication Information

Ann Arbor, MI : Dzanc Books, 2023.

Physical Description

231 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"A middle-aged Black woman exacts revenge on the aggressively average men she meets on dating sites. A girl buries pieces of herself in a hole beneath an apple tree, hoping to escape her mother's life of struggle and servitude. A group of teenage girls compete for the title of 'Worst Girl in America.' A young woman in Taiwan becomes infatuated with a female scam caller, a fleeting ghost of a love that blossoms from strangeness. And a wealthy woman goes to unconventional, and perhaps not entirely ethical, lengths to find her dream man. In these sixteen stories, we see women at their most monstrous--as con artists and murderers, cutthroats and scalpers, ruled by ambition and grief and spite. Characters for those tired of being told to play nice. Dressed to the nines in morally gray, the stories in this anthology comprise an envelope full of teeth: each one distinct, unsettling, and sharp enough to rip out a throat." --

Contents

  • Fuckboy museum / Caller / All you have is your fire / The Other you / Maps / Aquafina / A Scholarship opportunity / Sick / Ms Wrong / Holes / Manifestation / Buffalo / Composition / The Monolith / The Devil's doorbell / Amaranth

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