7/5/2023 0 Comments So we can glowA love story begins over cabbages in a grocery store, and a laundress's life is consumed by her obsession with a baseball star. A woman luxuriates in a fantasy getaway to escape her past. Members of a cult form an unsettling chorus as they proclaim their adoration for the same man. On a hot July night, teenage girls sneak out of the house to meet their boyfriends by the train tracks. A lush, glittering short story collection exploring female obsession and desire by an award-winning author Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller." From Kentucky to the California desert, these forty-two short stories - ranging from the 80's and 90's to present day - expose expose the hearts of girls and women in moments of obsessive desire and fantasy, wildness and bad behavior, brokenness and fearlessness, and more.
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