As If She Had a Say
Author | : Jennifer Fliss |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2023-07-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780810146266 |
ISBN-13 | : 0810146266 |
Rating | : 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Download or read book As If She Had a Say written by Jennifer Fliss and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new story collection from Jennifer Fliss, author of The Predatory Animal Ball Who has a right to tell us how to experience our grief? How to perform—or not perform—the roles society prescribes to us based on our various points of identity? As If She Had a Say, the second story collection from Jennifer Fliss, uses an absurdist lens to showcase characters—predominantly women—plumbing their resources as they navigate misogyny, abuse, and grief. In these stories, a woman melts in the face of her husband’s cruelty; a seven-tablespoons-long woman lives inside a refrigerator and engages in an affair with the man of the house; a balloon-animal artist attends a funeral to discover he was invited as more than entertainment; and a man loses all his nouns. Fans of Karen Russell and Carmen Maria Machado will appreciate how As If She Had a Say’s inventive narratives expose inequities by taking us on imaginative romps through domesticity and patriarchal expectations. Each story functions as a magnifying glass through which we might examine our own lives and see ourselves more clearly.