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Women! In! Peril!
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| Author | Jessie Ren Marshall |
|---|---|
| Release Date | April 2, 2024 |
| Genre | Literary Fiction |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Tags | Queer |
Description
Full of wry humor, sharp social commentary, and an irrepressible sense of hope, a ferociously feminist debut short story collection from award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall.
In this brash and unputdownable collection, we meet a sex bot trying to outlast her return policy, a skeptical lesbian grappling with her wife’s mysterious pregnancy, and a post-Earth colonist struggling to maintain her faith in humanity as she travels to “Planet B.” Whether they exist in the grounded realism of a college dance studio or the speculative world of Deep Space, these women push against social norms and family expectations to reclaim their power, understand their mistakes, and find a better future.
Hilarious, heartbreaking, and defiantly optimistic, the twelve stories in Women! In! Peril! balance humor and gravitas to explore the complexities of queerness, toxic relationships, parenting and divorce, Asian and Asian American identity, and so much more.
About the Author
I‘m a writer living off-grid with my dogs on Hawaiʻi Island.
She/her, Asian-American, mixed race.
I’m represented by Michelle Brower and Natalie Edwards at Trellis Literary (for US bookish things), Sara Langham at David Higham Associates (for UK bookish things), and Shivani Doraiswami at Grandview (for TV + filmish things).
I’m also a playwright whose musical Pele & The Hiʻiakas was a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Conference, and my play Hapa Girls won the Kumu Kahua Hawaiʻi Prize.
