Our fruiting bodies : short fiction /

Our fruiting bodies : short fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Shawl, Nisi, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Seattle, Washington : Aqueduct Press, November 2022. ©2022
Description:	310 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Life -- Fiction. Death -- Fiction. Short stories, American -- 21st century. Death Life Short stories, American Short stories, American. short stories. Fiction Short stories Short stories.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13532303

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Other uniform titles:	Addison, Linda D., 1952- Container of (work): Shawl, Nisi. Awfully big adventure.
ISBN:	9781619762244 1619762242
Notes:	Short stories.
Summary:	Our Fruiting Bodies collects stories of old growth and fresh decay, of stubborn rebirth and the faint but nonimaginary paths connecting life and nonlife. From the sharp, sweet confessional of their Peter Pan-inspired "Awfully Big Adventure," through the melting ambitextualities of "Just Us" -- from the early, dizzy-eyed quest at the heart of "Looking for Lilith" through the newly unfurling tendrils that pierce the grounds of "I Being Young and Foolish" -- Nisi Shawl's search for the power of fiction's truth puts pure, precious gifts right here, right in your hands, ripe and ready for reading.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: what soft power creates/destroys
An awfully big adventure
Women of the doll
The tawny bitch
Luisah's church
Cruel sistah
Bib Mama Yaga's
Street worm
Queen of dirt
Conversion therapy
A beautiful stream
I being young and foolish
Looking for Lilith
Vulcanization
She tore
Salt on the dance floor
Beyond the lighthouse
To the moment
Just between us.