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Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today.Cassandra 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, we have always been this way. You just had to know where to look.

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Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: Shit Cassandra Saw
• Subtitle: Stories
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780143136620
• ISBN: 0143136623
• ID: 35695352
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Weight: 230 g
• Dimensions: 127 × 195 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. January 2022

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