Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :https://esound.space/fullID: 697347Title: Weird Black Girls: StoriesAuthor: Elwin CotmanNarrator: André Santana, Emily Lawrence, Jade Wheeler, James Fouhey, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Landon WoodsonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 10:51:50Language: EnglishRelease date: 04-16-24Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioGenres: Fiction & Literature, Literary FictionSummary:Belletrist Book Club PickFrom 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.Contact: [email protected]

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