Hymnal for Dirty Girls
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B008YOMYEY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 477 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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An accurate look into the mind of a teenage girl As usual, this book was sent to me as part of a GoodReads drawing.This little work is really more of a pamphlet and tips the scales at a scant 35 pages. The writing is engaging and does get one's attention in a hurry but by the time you've wrapped your mind around what's going on (well, around the several things that are going on
She is currently at work on a novel. Rebekah Matthews is from Indiana and lives in Boston. . Her work has appeared in publications such as Storyglossia, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Necessary Fiction
In these six wonderful melancholies, we travel from a suburban Red Lobster to a Baltimore sex stakeout, from brief earthly heavens and to a very literal Hell. Rebekah Matthews’ debut collection snaps with poignant and sharp-edged stories, charged with desire and disquiet between women. In “Reasonably In-Shape Women,” a young woman attends a fashion blogger's backyard barbecue where she witnesses an affecting act of love, in “Worse Than,” a high school student learns the power of storytelling, and in “Heaven for Everyone” a cancer patient faces her own mortality. The characters grapple with loss, survival, and faith as they try to navigate the complicated ins and outs of the everyday world. Her characters evolve before our eyes, learning how to relate to each other in the strange confines of nor
Here is a book of love songs, really, ballads for those who may be asked too often and too unfairly to explain themselves. And nor could any of the characters be considered dirty girls. Although Matthews does not shy away from sex as an element of the collection, it is not the collection s overt focus. These are polite and kind young women lost perhaps, unmoored, but never vulgar or offensive. Most are lesbians, and so the juxtaposition of the word hymnal with that confrontational label dirty girl becomes, through the stories, a fantastic subversion of the very idea that these women are in any way dirty. --Necessary Fiction