You are the snake : stories
Call Number
- FICTION ESCO (CEN)
Edition
First Soft Skull edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2024.
Physical Description
ix, 241 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
"In You Are the Snake, we peer into the life of a community college student, the life of an abusive grandmother is imagined, and a young woman takes up gardening. Escoria's characters are trying their best, or they aren't, as they bump against the boundaries of society's expectations. While Escoria plumbs the depth of girlhood and new womanhood, she leaves room for oddness, impulse, and yearning. Each story contains its own world, be it the suburbs of California or the mountains of West Virginia, but taken as a whole, this collection is expands expectations about what women can be and what they can write"--
Contents
- The Hot girl
- Pluck it out
- Dust particles
- The Ryans
- Roadkill
- Nicole took her shirt off first
- The Other time a grown man threatened my life
- Automotive safety
- State of emergency
- Math class
- I am the snake
- Rational fears for only children
- Hazel : a diptych
- Same person, different fires
- The Arsonist
- Natural selection
- Little bitch
- Santa Muerte
- Is it jackal or is it dragon.