Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls
Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls by Anne Casey-Hardy
English | September 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1761107267 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 3.3 MB
English | September 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1761107267 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 3.3 MB
Excitable girls rush out to meet life; what could go wrong? A masterful debut about the terrifying thrills of innocence from a voice of experience.
Teenagers sneak out to the creek for a wild New Year's Eve party. A sleep-deprived woman who imagines she is pregnant to a Viking faces her scathing sixteen-year-old self. A woman in love wakes up in a van Gogh painting.
These gem-like stories are about the desire to rush out and meet life; about getting in over your head; about danger, and damage, and what it means to survive – and not always survive – the risk of being young. They chart the borderlands between girls and women, daughters and mothers, freedom and fear.
Emerging fully-formed and singing songs of both innocence and experience, Anne Casey-Hardy is the rarest of new voices: at the same time reckless and entirely in control; funny and frightening; wise and full-blooded.