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Shut up, you're pretty : stories / Téa Mutonji.
In Tea Mutonji's debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother reconnects with her daughter through their shared interest in fish, and a young woman decides to shave her head in the waiting room of an abortion clinic.These punchy, sharply observed stories blur the lines between longing and choosing, exploring the narrator's experience as an involuntary one. Tinged with pathos and humour, they interrogate the moments in which femininity, womanness, and identity are not only questioned but also imposed.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781551527550
- ISBN: 1551527553
- Physical Description: 135 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Vancouver, BC, Canada : VS. Books, an imprint of Arsenal Pulp Press, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2019
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 5 / 5.0
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Tits for cigs -- Parchment paper -- The event -- Down the lakeshore -- If not happiness -- This is only temporary -- Phyllis Green -- Ten-year reunion -- Theresa is getting married -- The boy from my youth -- The common room -- Men, tricks, and money -- The waitress -- Shut up you're pretty -- Women talking -- Old-fashioneds -- Sober party -- Tilapia fish. |
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| Subject: | Women > Fiction. Femininity > Fiction. Identity (Psychology) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Short stories. Canadian fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Allard Branch | FIC MUT (Text) | 37842000833139 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| 100 Mile House Branch | MUT (Text) | 33923004526525 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Beaver Valley Public Library | F MUT (Text) | 35144000203278 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bowen Island Public Library | F MUT (Text) | 30947900112554 | New Books | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-15 |
| Broadway Library | PS 8626 U92 S58 2019 (Text) | 33109010359487 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Campus Library | MUTONJ SHUTUP (Text) | B001635754 | New Books | Not holdable | Lost | 2019-11-22 |
| Castlegar Campus Library | MUTONJ SHUTUP (Text) | B001711530 | New Books | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC MUT (Text) | 35146002339810 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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35140001279911 | New Books Display | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-30 |
| Dauphin | F MUT (Text) | 35419002871193 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
