How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories
Venita Blackburn
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories
Venita Blackburn
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
... a bold, witty, ominous and vulnerable second book of stories that is as resolute and original as its author.
Blackburn’s second book of short stories is eclectic and satisfying even as it leaves readers with little closure.
These are stories about the chaos of bodies, from menstruation to athletics, from sex to movie makeup. Rather than tell an overarching narrative, each story acts as a fragment of a wildly patterned mosaic, and through accumulation, patterns come clear, if not exactly a single picture. This structural inventiveness mirrors the formally inventive stories.
[A] provocative collection.