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Shit Cassandra Saw

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Shit Cassandra Saw

By: Gwen E. Kirby
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Sura Siu, Rob Shapiro, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Rebecca Lowman
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 “Kirby has mastered the art of short fiction…A stunning collection from a writer whose talent and creativity seem boundless.”
—NPR

“Kirby takes joy in subverting the reader’s expectations at every turn. Her characters might be naïve, even reckless, but they aren’t about to be victims: They’re strong, and brave, and nearly always capable of rescuing themselves.”
—New York Times Book Review

Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today.

Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers. Gwen E. Kirby experiments with found structures--a Yelp review, a WikiHow article--which her fierce, irreverent narrators push against, showing how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves. When these women tell the stories of their triumphs as well as their pain, they emerge as funny, angry, loud, horny, lonely, strong protagonists who refuse to be secondary characters a moment longer. From "The Best and Only Whore of Cym Hyfryd, 1886" to the "Midwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories," Kirby is playing and laughing with the women who have come before her and they are telling her, we have always been this way. You just had to know where to look. Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Short Stories Women's Fiction Comedy Inspiring Witty Funny
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Some funny, some sad and some heavy short stories. Twists turns and never really being anything I’d expected… These stories are not always easy listening, but at the right time and in the right mood, I enjoyed many of them for what they were… startling, funny, strange at times with twists & turns. Love, aggression, profanity… the struggles of being a woman laid out bare… the list goes on.

Honestly I didn’t like all the stories, but there is enough here to pick and choose from.

Downside… I don’t know why but I was really not feeling some of the audio voices.

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