Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman

Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman

Finalist for the Locus Award
Belletrist Book Club Pick

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.

Cotman, Elwin: - Elwin Cotman is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of two fantasy story collections published by Six Gallery Press: THE JACK DANIELS SESSIONS EP (2010) and HARD TIMES BLUES (2013). He is as old as the movie Purple Rain. In 2005 he received his BA in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, and received his MFA from Mills College in 2012. He is a former resident of the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers' Cooperative. He currently lives in Lafayette, Louisiana, where his favorite local food is catfish.

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ISBN 13	9781668018859
ISBN 10	1668018853
Title	Weird Black Girls
Author	Elwin Cotman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2024-04-16
Number of pages	320
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