Dead Girls and Other Stories

By Emily Geminder

Book Overview

"Geminder's book showcases an acute sensitivity to worlds both inside and out. There's real delicacy to the craft but underneath all the skill is a shaking sense of purpose, and a great love of the brokenness and beauty of humanity. This is a substantive, memorable debut."
--Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake With lyric artistry and emotional force, Emily Geminder's debut collection charts a vivid constellation of characters fleeing their own stories. A teenage runaway and her mute brother seek salvation in houses, buses, the backseats of cars. Preteen girls dial up the ghosts of fat girls. A crew of bomber pilots addresses the sparks of villagers below. In Cambodia, four young women confuse themselves with the ghost of a dead reporter. And from India to New York to Phnom Penh, dead girls both real and fantastic appear again and again: as obsession, as threat, as national myth and collective nightmare.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1945814330
• ISBN13: 9781945814334
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"