![]() Kirby experiments with found structures-a Yelp review, a WikiHow article-which her fierce, irreverent narrators push against, showing how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers. Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today.Ĭassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. ![]() ![]() Her characters might be naïve, even reckless, but they aren’t about to be victims: They’re strong, and brave, and nearly always capable of rescuing themselves.” “Kirby takes joy in subverting the reader’s expectations at every turn. ![]() “Kirby has mastered the art of short fiction…A stunning collection from a writer whose talent and creativity seem boundless.” ![]()
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![]() I was 16 when I wrote it and those were the emotions I was feeling. They're still kind of putting on a mask to fit in. Why do you think it still resonates today?Įveryone identifies with being an outsider, even within their own group they don't feel like they can be themselves. It was all "Mary Jane goes to the prom" - that kind of thing. ![]() I also wrote it to read it because back in those days, there wasn't anything realistic being written about teenage lives. I just liked to write and I had been writing for about eight years when I began The Outsiders. The story idea came from what was going on in my high school. Hinton is in Vancouver this weekend and stopped by the CBC's The Early Edition to speak with host Rick Cluff. The unflinching, realistic depictions of gang violence, family dysfunction and teenage life made the book a subject of controversy but also a staple of high school curricula. Hinton's 1967 coming-of-age book describes the rivalries between two teen gangs in Oklahoma in the 1960s. Those famous words from the teen novel The Outsiders were written by then 16-year-old author S.E. ![]() ![]() But she is also terrified by his wife Helen, who knows the truth, that Anaxandra is not Callisto. Menelaus takes her home with him to his palace, where she befriends his children, in particular his daughter Hermoine and his baby son Pleis. She takes on the identity of the dead princess Callisto. When Menelaus, king of Sparta, stops his fleet of ships at Siphnos to investigate, Anaxandra lies to save herself. ![]() Six years later, Siphnos is raided by pirates, and Anaxandra is the only survivor. She ends up being companion and friend to his crippled daughter Callisto. ![]() When she is just six years old, she is taken as a hostage by Nicander, king of Siphnos. ![]() Anaxandra is the only daughter of the chieftain of a small, unnamed island in the Aegean Sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes I even listened (fast) while I read along in print. I actually found that it lent itself really well to being spoken rather than read, and I did large swaths of this on audiobook. The writing - Eva's voice - feels a little stiff at first, but stick with her. I am going to be thinking about this for a really long time. Even readers can't pull ourselves out of our expectations of her as his mother, the gut reaction that she's partly to blame although of course she isn't at all. Beyond just depicting Kevin's chilling nature and behaviors (this kid is CREEPY), you also find yourself wavering between believing Eva and not, and then feeling guilty for it. But it's also an undeniably brilliant feat. deeply unsettling, and often difficult to read. Trapped between the expectations of what it means to be a mother, a parent's perceived responsibility for a child's actions, and a terrorizing son, she was damned if she did, damned if she didn't. ![]() Kevin showed psychopathic tendencies from infancy, especially to his mother - but over and over again, Eva was not believed. This book is narrated by a woman named Eva as she writes letters to her former husband, giving her full account of the years leading up to the day their son murdered nine classmates and a teacher. ![]() Mid-review important trigger warning: School shootings We Need to Talk About Kevin won the Women's Prize in 2005, so was next up for me in the #ReadingWomen challenge to read all the previous winners this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() King proved this theory wrong later on in his life, but he first had to come up with a way to publish his written material that his publishers declined to accept.Īccording to Stephen King himself in the introduction to The Bachman Books collection, the pseudonym was also a way of seeing how successful his writing could be without relying on his public image. 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