02384oam 22004814a 450 991016392390332120230125191325.00-253-02436-6(CKB)3710000001055897(MiAaPQ)EBC4804426(OCoLC)972641055(MdBmJHUP)muse58055(EXLCZ)99371000000105589720170223d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierElegies for Uncanny Girls /Jennifer ColvilleBreak Away Book Club edition.Bloomington, Indiana ;Indianapolis, Indiana :Indiana University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (140 pages)Break away booksIncludes book club guide.0-253-02429-3 Other mothers -- Costume -- Center -- Caroline -- Audra -- Details -- When Maggie thinks of Matt -- Jill, or the big little lady -- Dora -- Winona.Unsettling and perceptive, these short stories challenge American girlhood in all its delusions, conflicting messages, and treacherous terrain. Wide- and wise-eyed, mysterious girls leave their realities behind for strange and slightly unreal places at the edges of the country. Alternatively they hover over their Midwestern homes in interior worlds of their own creation. The stories in Elegies for Uncanny Girls stand at a boundary where both the girls' bodies and their tales are either their own or laid claim to by the culture and characters that surround them. A young woman whose body continually shrinks and expands moves to Los Angeles to make a movie about tragic merpeople; bewildered and seeking guidance, a new mom strikes up a conversation with a woman with detachable hands; and spurred on by a new ally who might just be a figment of her imagination, a girl decides she can choose her own friends.Break away books.Young womenFictionGirlsFictionElectronic books. Young womenGirls813.54Colville Jennifer1744343MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910163923903321Elegies for Uncanny Girls4174282UNINA