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Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country and Other Stories
| Author: | Chavisa Woods |
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Seven Stories Press, 2017 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
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Synopsis
The eight stories in Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country paint a vivid image of people living on the fringes in America, people who don't do what you might expect them to. Not stories of triumph over adversity, but something completely other.
Described in language that is brilliantly sardonic, Woods's characters return repeatedly to places where they don't belong--often the places where they were born. In "Zombie," a coming-of-age story like no other, two young girls find friendship with a mysterious woman in the local cemetery. "Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street" describes a lesbian couple trying to repair their relationship by dropping acid at a Mensa party. In "A New Mohawk," a man in romantic pursuit of a female political activist becomes inadvertently much more familiar with the Palestine/Israel conflict than anyone would have thought possible. And in the title story, Woods brings us into the mind of a queer goth teenager who faces ostracism from her small-town evangelical church.
In the background are the endless American wars and occupations and too many early deaths of friends and family. This is fiction that is fresh and of the moment, even as it is timeless.
Table of Contents:
• How to Stop Smoking in Nineteen Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty-Seven Seconds, Usama • (2012)
• Zombie (non-genre)
• Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street
• What's Happening on the News? (non-genre)
• A Little Aside
• A New Mohawk • (2012)
• Revelations (non-genre)
• Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country • (2013)
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