Jacqueline Vogtman

Girl Country

and Other Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection PrizeA near-future farmer battling environmental crises takes ina mysterious girl he finds on the roadside. A bus driver navigates throughtreacherous weather and memories of her tragic past as she races to savechildren from the end of the world. A woman keeps giving birth to children fromdifferent time periods. And a woman struggles with her young daughter mysteriouslytransforming into something wild and unruly, confronting themes of motherhoodand family.  In Girl Country, stories range frommedieval Belgium to the near-future of the American Midwest, populated bymothers and monsters, mermaids and milkmaids, nuns and bus driversâ¿women inevery walk of life, but particularly working-class women, navigating theintersection of the mundane and the magical. Perfect for fans of Orange Worldand Animal Wife, these are stories about women with teethâ¿wild andalive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dzanc Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 139mm x 217mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9781950539765
• ISBN-10: 1950539768
• Artikelnr.: 64299200

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Vogtman’s fiction has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Permafrost, The Literary Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Third Coast, and other journals. A graduate of the MFA program at Bowling Green State University, she is currently Associate Professor of English at Mercer County Community College. She has lived in New Jersey most of her life and resides in a small town surrounded by nature, which she explores with her husband, daughter, and dog. Girl Country is her first book. Find her on Instagram @jacquelinevogtman and online at jacquelinevogtman.com.