Excerpt: Plastered in Pretty by N.C. Marks
About the Book: http://www.houseofnehesipublish.com PLASTERED IN PRETTY is a dystopian tale. N.C. Marks activates, deactivates at will the Alice in Wonderland syndrome in a Caribbean paradise. Facebook and Instagram are virtual religious icons. A pyromaniac burns a new-born in the late night, office-bound civil servants chat only via WhatsApp, friends with benefits, “Persons With Pedigree,” […]
Excerpt: You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian
About the Book: http://www.scoutpressbooks.com/ You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sex…until they can’t have sex […]
Excerpt: All We Have is Our Voice by Carole Stone
About the Book: http://www.dosmadres.com Poetry. Women’s Studies. “In ALL WE HAVE IS OUR VOICE, Carole Stone’s fierce dramatic monologues, delivered by the wives and lovers of such titans as Tolstoy, Lincoln, Freud, Yeats, Joyce, and (Dylan) Thomas, incisively protest patriarchal privilege and exploitation. Taut ekphrastic poems aptly probe the artistic struggles and transports of Kahlo, […]
Excerpt: Hotwheel by Aja Moore
About the Book: www.metatron.press Poetry. Women’s Studies. Aja Moore’s debut collection of poetry is awash in sincerity and the ways in which we simultaneously crave, doubt, avoid, and totally disparage it. HOTWHEEL, in turn, reveals its precious life-affirming conviction, despite its incertitude–or precisely because of it. Read an Excerpt: Featured in Aug/Sept 2019 Issue: Fierce […]
Excerpt: Hum by Natalia Hero
About the Book: http://www.metatron.press Fiction. Women’s Studies. HUM follows a young woman whose life is changed forever when, after being raped, she gives birth to a hummingbird. She must learn to cope with not only what happened to her, but with the bird’s persistent, agitating presence in her life. Natalia Hero’s debut is a beautiful […]
Excerpt: Juliet the Maniac by Juliet Escoria
About the Book: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com A highly anticipated debut—from a writer hailed as “a combination of Denis Johnson and Joan Didion” (Dazed)—brilliantly captures the intimate triumph of a girl’s struggle to become the woman she knows she can be. Ambitious, talented fourteen-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, […]
Excerpt: This House of Wounds by Georgina Bruce
About the Book: http://www.undertowpublications.com This House of Wounds is the devastating debut short story collection from British Fantasy Award-winning author Georgina Bruce. Haunting and visceral tales for the lost and the lonely. An emotional and riveting debut, with 4 brand new stories. “An astonishing, totally absorbing debut collection. Edgy, disturbing and delicious in equal parts. […]
Excerpt: The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S. Laskar
About the Book: http://www.counterpointpress.com When a woman—known only as Mother—moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The […]
Excerpt: Shut Up You’re Pretty. by Téa Mutonji
About the Book: http://www.arsenalpulp.com In Téa Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother reconnects with her daughter through their shared interest in fish, and a young woman decides on shaving her head in the […]
Review: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti
“The walk made me realize that in real life, there isn’t actually a last thing. Nothing ends; it just turns into a different story.” That’s what happened with this book, it starts out one story, takes you into another, brings you back to the original, and then ends something completely new. Hawthorne would say things […]