{"product_id":"shit-cassandra-saw-stories-paperback","title":"Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGwen E. Kirby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Kirby has mastered the art of short fiction...A stunning collection from a writer whose talent and creativity seem boundless.\"\u003cbr\u003e --NPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Kirby takes joy in subverting the reader's expectations at every turn. Her characters might be naïve, even reckless, but they aren't about to be victims: They're strong, and brave, and nearly always capable of rescuing themselves.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMargaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers. Gwen E. Kirby experiments with found structures--a Yelp review, a WikiHow article--which her fierce, irreverent narrators push against, showing how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves. When these women tell the stories of their triumphs as well as their pain, they emerge as funny, angry, loud, horny, lonely, strong protagonists who refuse to be secondary characters a moment longer. From \"The Best and Only Whore of Cym Hyfryd, 1886\" to the \"Midwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories,\" Kirby is playing and laughing with the women who have come before her and they are telling her\u003ci\u003e, \u003ci\u003ewe have always been this way\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eYou just had to know where to look\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGwen E. Kirby is a native San Diegan and graduate of Carleton College. She has an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Her stories appear in \u003ci\u003eOne Story, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTin\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHouse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNinth Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmokeLong Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Guest editor Aimee Bender selected her story \"Shit Cassandra Saw . . .\" for \u003ci\u003eBest Small Fictions 2018\u003c\/i\u003e and it also appears in the 2018 Wigleaf Top 50. Her story \"Midwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories\" won the 2017 DISQUIET Literary Prize for Fiction and she was the 2018-2019 George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy. Currently, she is the associate director of programs and finance for the Sewanee Writers' Conference at the University of the South, where she also teaches creative writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.5 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 11, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52045674414381,"sku":"9780143136620","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/shit-cassandra-saw-stories-paperback-2787952.webp?v=1780170007","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/shit-cassandra-saw-stories-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}