Elegies for Uncanny Girls

by Jennifer Colville

Book Overview

Unsettling and perceptive, these short stories challenge American girlhood in all its delusions, conflicting messages, and treacherous terrain. Wide- and wise-eyed, mysterious girls leave their realities behind for strange and slightly unreal places at the edges of the country. Alternatively they hover over their Midwestern homes in interior worlds of their own creation. The stories in Elegies for Uncanny Girls stand at a boundary where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253024293
• ISBN13: 9780253024299
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Break Away Book Club Edition
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher