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How to wrestle a girl : stories / Venita Blackburn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : MCD x FSG Originals, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 207 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374602796
  • 0374602794
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Fam -- Bear Bear Harvest? -- Biology class -- How to wrestle a girl -- Easter egg surprise -- Inappropriate gifts -- Lisa Bonet -- Live birth -- Thirteen porcelain schnauzers -- Not for resale -- Smoothies -- Blood, guts, and bile -- Young woman laughing into her salad -- Side effects include dizziness, ringing in the ears, and memory loss -- Difficult subjects -- Trial of ghosts -- Grief log -- Fat -- Lizard sex -- Dick pic -- Black communion -- In the counselor's waiting room with no wi-fi -- Halloween -- Quiz -- Menstruation -- Ambien and brown liquor -- Parthenogenesis -- 'Tis the season -- Answer sheet -- Ground fighting.
Summary: "A hilarious, tough, and tender story collection pressurized by grief, sexual longing, the spectrum of gender, and girls with muscle."-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction BLACKBUR VENITA Available 33111010562631
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A Paris Review Staff Pick and an Amazon Editors' Pick. Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and longlisted for the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize.

"Bold, witty, ominous and vulnerable . . . How to Wrestle a Girl shines in its propensity to magnify small moments, challenge our presumptions and dissect the beauty, danger and wonder of girlhood." -- The New York Times Book Review

Hilarious, tough, and tender stories from a farseeing star on the rise

Venita Blackburn's characters bully and suffer, spit and tease, mope and blame. They're hyperaware of their bodies and fiercely observant, fending off the failures and advances of adults with indifferent ease. In "Biology Class," they torment a teacher to the point of near insanity, while in "Bear Bear Harvest(tm)," they prepare to sell their excess fat and skin for food processing. Stark and sharp, hilarious and ominous, these pieces are scabbed, bruised, and prone to scarring.

Many of the stories, set in Southern California, follow a teenage girl in the aftermath of her beloved father's death and capture her sister's and mother's encounters with men of all ages, as well as the girl's budding attraction to her best friend, Esperanza. In and out of school, participating in wrestling and softball, attending church with her hysterically complicated family, and dominating boys in arm wrestling, she grapples with her burgeoning queerness and her emerging body, becoming wary of clarity rather than hoping for it.

A rising star, Blackburn is a trailblazing stylist, and in How to Wrestle a Girl she masterfully shakes loose a vision of girlhood that is raw, vulnerable, and never at ease.

Subtitle from cover.

"A hilarious, tough, and tender story collection pressurized by grief, sexual longing, the spectrum of gender, and girls with muscle."-- Provided by publisher.

Fam -- Bear Bear Harvest? -- Biology class -- How to wrestle a girl -- Easter egg surprise -- Inappropriate gifts -- Lisa Bonet -- Live birth -- Thirteen porcelain schnauzers -- Not for resale -- Smoothies -- Blood, guts, and bile -- Young woman laughing into her salad -- Side effects include dizziness, ringing in the ears, and memory loss -- Difficult subjects -- Trial of ghosts -- Grief log -- Fat -- Lizard sex -- Dick pic -- Black communion -- In the counselor's waiting room with no wi-fi -- Halloween -- Quiz -- Menstruation -- Ambien and brown liquor -- Parthenogenesis -- 'Tis the season -- Answer sheet -- Ground fighting.

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