Juliet Escoria: You Are the Snake, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"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"--