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bold female voice fiction
bravado and self-deception narrative
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character-driven short fiction
contemporary American short stories
contemporary women writers
dark comedy fiction
dark humor short stories
dog hoarding narrative
edgy short fiction
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female antiheroes literature
female defiance narratives
female rage literature
female romanticism literature
feminist literary fiction
fiction about lying
fiction resisting moral instruction
genre-defying short stories
humor and darkness fiction
independent women fiction
introspective resistance characters
irreverent literary voice
literary fiction humor
literary short story collection
morally ambiguous protagonists
morally complex female characters
nonconformist women narratives
nurse fiction stories
peculiar American fiction
pediatric hospital setting fiction
psychological fiction women
quirky short story collection
raucous literary humor
rule-breaking female characters
sharp literary prose
short fiction anthology
subversive women's fiction
tangled narrative voices
transgressive women's literature
unconventional storytelling
unconventional women characters
unexpected plot fiction
unreliable narrator fiction
violent urgency fiction
women defying authority fiction
women protagonists fiction
working class women fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781625343079
- Weight: 375g
- Dimensions: 147 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2017
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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From a nurse who sees a rattlesnake in the pediatric ICU to an animal control officer convinced she's found her abducted daughter in the house of a dog hoarder, the thirteen stories in Freak Weather are as unpredictable as the atmospheric changes that give this collection its name. With dark and raucous humor, Mary Kuryla creates female characters who, at times, combine a violent urgency with lack of introspection as they struggle to get out from under the thumb of a perceived authority. The intricate language is inseparable from the narrator's conviction; the characters lie with such bravado they're soon tangled up in their own webs. This brand of romanticism in a female character is little tolerated, and Freak Weather's mission - Kuryla's artistic mission overall - is to scratch at the intolerable. Call it bad instructions for moral behavior.
Mary Kuryla has been awarded The Pushcart Prize and the Glimmer Train Short Fiction Prize. Her stories have been adapted into award-winning films that premiered at the Sundance and Toronto International film festivals.
