Sympathy for Wild Girls
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Sympathy for Wild Girls

Stories

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eBook - ePub

Sympathy for Wild Girls

Stories

About this book

A debut collection of surreal, skin-piercing stories about the boundless longing of queer Black women

In Sympathy for Wild Girls, young Black women yearn for intimacy and search for it on turbulent ground. Navigating a subtly warped version of our world, where social mores loom like shadows and bigotry shape-shifts, Demree McGhee's characters track the prints of their desire and pain to the edges of reality, finding refuge in unlikely places. Can they survive the chasms lurking in our common notions of "girlhood"—considering their heightened peril as queer women of color?

A runaway seeks shelter from violence with a pack of wild coyotes. A young woman falls into a hypocritical crew of white Christian YouTube influencers. A mother witnesses her daughter's prophecy about the end of the world come true. A group of shoplifters lose themselves in their quest for cheap lipstick and cheaper fame. Fighting self-loathing and societal abuse, McGhee's characters chase abandon on their own terms—embracing their feral strength and ugliest truths, howling at the moon to be known.

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Information

Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Year
2025
Print ISBN
9781558613386
eBook ISBN
9781558613379
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Sympathy for Wild Girls
  6. Throwing Up in a Gated Community
  7. Scratching
  8. Even Here, There I Am
  9. Thinning
  10. Exchange
  11. Pollen
  12. She Is Waiting
  13. Nico and the Boys
  14. Butterfruit
  15. Be Good
  16. Valerie
  17. Swallow Worlds
  18. Better Days
  19. A Matter of Survival
  20. Previous Publications
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. About the Author
  23. Also Available from Feminist Press
  24. About Feminist Press