Raven Leilani
1) Luster
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English
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Description
Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting...
2) Brillo
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Español
Description
"Un hombre mayor es una maravilla porque lleva treinta y ocho años pagando las facturas del gas, ha tenido salmonelosis y ha visto los informes sobre el cambio climático y aun así no se ha quitado la vida, pero lo cierto es que, después de haber sido mujer durante veintitrés años, después de la torsión ovárica, de los préstamos de estudios y los nazis de nuevo cuño con sus camisas de vestir, resulta que yo también sigo viva y que en realidad...
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English
Description
"While the common belief is that "body horror" as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the "quintessential emblem of female body horror." In A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, Oates has assembled a spectacular cast to explore this subgenre focusing on distortions to the human body in the most fascinating of ways"...