Sympathy for Wild Girls : Stories by Demree McGhee (2025, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFeminist Press at T.H.E. City University of New York
ISBN-101558613382
ISBN-139781558613386
eBay Product ID (ePID)7068565529
Product Key Features
Book TitleSympathy for Wild Girls : Stories
Number of Pages212 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicOccult & Supernatural, Short Stories (Single Author), General
GenreFiction
AuthorDemree Mcghee
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2024-050153
Reviews"I loved this book! Demree McGhee writes with dazzling intelligence, tipping gracefully between the surreal and the real in a way that's constantly upping its own ante. These stories build to a powerful crescendo, and they left me in a state of awe." --Jenny Fran Davis, author of Dykette, "Demree McGhee's Sympathy for Wild Girls is an atmospheric short story collection about the restlessness of Black girls and women." -- Foreword Reviews, "McGhee writes in between the real and surreal, mixing dreamlike elements with stark realism, striking a balance that infuses each story with inventive and effective storytelling. A promising debut." -- Booklist, "McGhee has a unique vision with the chops to bring it to life. . . . A daring debut collection of enigmatic short stories." -- Kirkus Reviews
SynopsisA debut collection of surreal, skin-piercing stories about the boundless longing of queer Black women. 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. In Sympathy for Wild Girls , young Black women yearn for intimacy and hunt for belonging in a subtly warped version of our world, where social mores loom like shadows and bigotry shape-shifts. Skirting the chasms that lurk in our common notions of "girlhood"--and their heightened peril for queer women of color--Demree McGhee's characters track the prints of their desire and pain to the edges of reality, finding refuge in unlikely places. Fighting self-loathing and societal abuse, they explore the bounds of their feral strength and ugliest truths, howling at the moon to be known.
LC Classification NumberPS3613.C4579S96 2025
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