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Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country by Chavisa Woods
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Jul 09, 2019 | ISBN 9781609809157

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“In the tradition of Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner, and Flannery O’Connor, Woods’s third full-length work, Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country, explores the haunted terrain of the American psyche … Woods embraces the complex humanity of her characters even as she explores the tragedy of enculturation, identifying forces that divide us. Think of her as a literary exorcist, calling out certain entities that possess rural America: isolation, working-class poverty, drugs, incarceration, military dogma, and evangelical religion.” The Rumpus

“The stories establish instant, distinct voices, much like Roxane Gay’s recent Difficult Women (2016), and fans of Miranda July’s fiction will relish the wily creativity of Woods’ plots. This book is tight, intelligent, and important, and sure to secure Woods a seat on the pantheon of critical 21st-century voices.” —Booklist, starred review

“I can’t think of any other book that captures the essence of America the way this collection does—it is nuanced and provocative, heartfelt and funny and wise. Of it, Booklist says, ‘…tight, intelligent, and important, and sure to secure Woods a seat in the pantheon of critical twenty-first-century voices’ and I couldn’t agree more.” Lambda Literary

“Set at the irresistible junction of toxic reality and the truly strange, the electric unexplainable, Chavisa Woods stirs up stories of drugs and dykes, mutant mohawks, the Gaza Strip and green glowing orbs. Here, the outsider becomes truly alien. Murakami meets the meth heads. Woods delivers a nation of cigarettes in language both lyric and thrilling. Reader, you have never before seen anything like this.” —Samantha Hunt, author of Mr. Splitfoot
 
“Chavisa Woods’s Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country is part Flannery O’Connor, part Kelly Link: darkly funny and brilliantly human, urgently fantastical and implacably realistic. This is one of the best short story collections I’ve read in years, and it should be required reading for anyone who’s trying to understand America in 2017.” —Paul La Farge, author of The Night Ocean

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