[DOWNLOAD] "How to Wrestle a Girl" by Venita Blackburn * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

eBook details
- Title: How to Wrestle a Girl
- Author : Venita Blackburn
- Release Date : January 07, 2021
- Genre: Short Stories,Books,Fiction & Literature,African American,Literary,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : KB
Description
"How to Wrestle a Girl is a work of stunning grace and rhythm. In these stories Venita Blackburn reminds us she is a writer unlike any other, her stories propelled by voice and wit and harsh beauty." --Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Friday Black
Hilarious, tough, and tender stories from a farseeing star on the rise
Venita Blackburnās characters bully and suffer, spit and tease, mope and blame. Theyāre hyperaware of their bodies and fiercely observant, fending off the failures and advances of adults with indifferent ease. In āBiology Class,ā they torment a teacher to the point of near insanity, while in āBear Bear Harvestā¢,ā they prepare to sell their excess fat and skin for food processing. Stark and sharp, hilarious and ominous, these pieces are scabbed, bruised, and prone to scarring.
Many of the stories, set in Southern California, follow a teenage girl in the aftermath of her beloved fatherās death and capture her sisterās and motherās encounters with men of all ages, as well as the girlās budding attraction to her best friend, Esperanza. In and out of school, participating in wrestling and softball, attending church with her hysterically complicated family, and dominating boys in arm wrestling, she grapples with her burgeoning queerness and her emerging body, becoming wary of clarity rather than hoping for it.
A rising star, Blackburn is a trailblazing stylist, and in How to Wrestle a Girl she masterfully shakes loose a vision of girlhood that is raw, vulnerable, and never at ease.
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