Publisher:St. Louis, MO : Dorothy, a publishing project, [2022]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
The Cord -- Freedom of White Boys in the Sand -- George Washington's Dentures -- Barbershop -- A Triangle -- The Foot of the Tan Building -- The Balcony -- Leave a Fingerprint, Gnocchi -- Three Months of Banana -- YYYY -- Pendergrass -- Adult Head -- Cabbage, the Highest Arch -- The Misconduct of Sand, and the Seven -- Forty-Seven Days Ago -- Real Number -- Spalding -- There's D'Angelo's Gap -- A Dry Drowning, Spaghetti Alle Vongole -- Wet Sand Used as an Abrasive Element -- Peach -- Ceremony -- False Lashes -- The New Husband -- Pasta, Fagioli + Cozze -- 540i -- Bending -- Haint -- Pool -- Hangnails, and Other Diseases -- La Genovese -- Catcalls -- Constellations -- In the Sand, the Nonconformity of Women Who Are Violently Shushed -- The Ethics of Piracy.
Summary, etc.:
"A fiercely original debut collection centers Black women in moments of imminent change. Giada Scodellaro's stories range in length, style, and tone-a collage of social commentary, surrealism, recipes, folklore, and art. What brings them together is a focus on experiences of black women in moments of dislocation, and a cinematic prose style saturated with detail: a child's legs bent upon the small bosom of their mother, three-piece suits floating in a river, a man holding a rotting banana during sex, wet cardboard, a woman walking naked through a traffic tunnel. In language that is lyrical, minimal, and often absurd, the diverse stories in Some of Them Will Carry Me deconstruct contemporary life while building a surprising new reality of language, intimacy, and loss"--