{"product_id":"you-are-the-snake-stories-paperback","title":"You Are the Snake: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJuliet Escoria\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eJuliet the Maniac\u003c\/i\u003e comes a collection of previously unpublished stories concerned with girlhood, family, and urge, reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and Laura van den Berg\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eYou Are the Snake\u003c\/i\u003e, we peer into the life of a community college student, the life of an abusive grandmother is imagined, and a young woman takes up gardening. Escoria's characters are trying their best, or they aren't, as they bump against the boundaries of society's expectations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploiting the form of the short story in a voice entirely her own, \u003ci\u003eYou Are the Snake\u003c\/i\u003e resists easy moralizing by subverting our expectations of how narrative functions. While Escoria plumbs the depth of girlhood and new womanhood, she leaves room for oddness, impulse, and yearning. Each story contains its own world, be it the suburbs of California or the mountains of West Virginia, but taken as a whole, this collection is expanding and challenging, corrupting expectations about what women can be and what they can write. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJuliet Escoria's writing has been called \"vivid,\" \"fantastic,\" \"sharp,\" and \"singularly honest,\" and this collection delivers the \"charged eloquence\" of her previous work, in addition to the maturity and style of a new format--the short story--which is a dream fit for her \"electricity that pulsates from within the prose.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuliet Escoria is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eJuliet the Maniac\u003c\/i\u003e (Melville House, May 2019), which was named a \"best of\" book by \u003ci\u003eNylon, Elle, Buzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e, and others, and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize. She also wrote the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eWitch Hunt\u003c\/i\u003e (Lazy Fascist Press, 2016) and the story collection \u003ci\u003eBlack Cloud\u003c\/i\u003e (CCM\/Emily Books, 2014), which were both listed in various best of the year roundups. Her writing can be found in places like \u003ci\u003ePrelude, VICE, The Fader, BOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been translated into many languages. She was born in Australia, raised in San Diego, and currently lives in West Virginia, where she teaches English at a community college.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.25 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693322244192,"sku":"9781593767747","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/0de65889c602de8eb93a5802209fdb2b.webp?v=1775824439","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/you-are-the-snake-stories-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}