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ID: 710396
Title: Good Women: Stories
Author: Halle Hill
Narrator: Tovah Ott
Format: Unabridged
Length: 05:18:14
Language: English
Release date: 09-12-23
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Contemporary Women
Summary:
'A stunning slow burn brimming with observation, emotion, and incident.Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
A fantastic firecracker of a collection I'll return to again and again!Deesha Philyaw, author ofThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies
In her dynamic debut, Halle Hills Good Women delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.
A woman boards a Greyhound bus barreling toward Florida to meet her sugar daddys mother; a state fair employee considers revenge on a local preacher; a sister struggles with guilt as she helps her brother plan to run away with a man he's seeing in secret; a young woman who works for a scam for-profit college navigates the lies she sells for a living.
Darkly funny and deeply human, Good Women observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundariesor lack thereofinfluence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we dont expect. Through intimate moments of personal choice, Hill carefully shines a light on how these twelve women shape and form themselves through faith and abandon, transgression and conformity, community, caution, and solitude.
With precision and empathy, Hill captures the mundane in moments of absurdity, and bears witness to both joy and heartbreak, reminding us how the next moment could be life-changing. Vibrant and exacting, Hill is a must-read new voice in literary fiction.
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