Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories

By Agustina Bazterrica

Book Overview

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh.From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways--often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound. In "Roberto," a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs. A woman's neighbor jumps to his death in "A Light, Swift, and Monstrous Sound," and in "Candy Pink," a woman fails to contend with a difficult breakup in five easy steps. Written in Bazterrica's signature clever, vivid style, these stories question love, friendship, family relationships, and unspeakable desires.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1668012669
• ISBN13: 9781668012666
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

I Wish I loved it

My respect and admiration for Augustina Bazterrica and her masterpiece Tender is the Flesh were the only driving forces that helped me finish this collection. With the end of every story, I worried that I just didn't get it, I was too long distanced from literature and academia to appreciate the stories, but honestly, I just don't think this title is a good representation of the authors talents and potential. There are roughly 5 stories within the collection that are riveting or even alluring, but many of them are just too short to leave any sort of lasting impression, and a couple that feel like online submissions for horror stories with harsh length restrictions. Augustina Bazterrica is still one of my favorite authors, this title won't stop me from buying and reading any and everything else she writes, maybe in a couple of years I'll read them again and get something I didn't this time.