Weird Black Girls: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781668018859)

From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black--a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction.

A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an activist community. An aloof young man finds himself living through his lover's memories. And a day of LARPing takes a cosmic turn.

In each of the seven stories in this collection, characters pursue their obsessions on paths to glory and destruction while around them their worlds twist and warp, oscillating between reality and impossibility. On display throughout is Cotman's ability to reveal truths about the human experience--about friendship, love, betrayal, bitterness--through whimsy, horror, and fantasy. Elegiac in tone, imaginative and humorous in their execution, the character-driven stories in Weird Black Girls challenge, incite, and entertain.

Author: Elwin Cotman
ISBN-10: 1668018853
ISBN-13: 9781668018859
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/08/2024
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2024
Booklist 04/15/2024 pg. 17