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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     More Content       More by this author     Blackburn, Venita.     Subjects     Girls -- Fiction.     Teenage girls -- Fiction.     Short stories, American -- Black authors     California, Southern -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Blackburn, Venita.       by title:      How to wrestle a gir...       by call number:      FICTION BLA     Search the Web     Blackburn, Venita.     Girls -- Fiction.     Teenage girls -- Fiction.     Short stories, American -- Black authors     California, Southern -- Fiction.       MARC Display

How to wrestle a girl / Venita Blackburn. by Blackburn, Venita. MCD x FSG Originals, 2021. Call #: FICTION BLA Subjects Girls -- Fiction.   Teenage girls -- Fiction.   Short stories, American -- Black authors   California, Southern -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780374602796 (pbk.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  viii, 207 p. ; 19 cm Contents:  Fam -- Bear Bear HarvestTM -- Biology class -- How to wrestle a girl -- Easter egg surprise -- Inappropriate gifts -- Lisa Bonet -- Live birth -- Thirteen porcelain schnauzers -- Not for resale -- Smoothies -- Blood, guts, and bile -- Young woman laughing into her salad -- Side effects include dizziness, ringing in the ears, and memory loss -- Difficult subjects -- Trial of ghosts -- Grief log -- Fat -- Lizard sex -- Dick pic -- Black communion -- In the counselor's waiting room with no wi-fi -- Halloween -- Quiz -- Menstruation -- Ambien and brown liquor -- Parthenogenesis -- 'Tis the season -- Answer sheet -- Ground fighting. Summary:  "Venita Blackburn's characters bully and suffer, spit and tease, mope and blame. They’re hyperaware of their bodies and fiercely observant, fending off the failures and advances of adults with indifferent ease. In "Biology Class," they torment a teacher to the point of near insanity, while in "Bear Bear HarvestTM," they prepare to sell their excess fat and skin for food processing. Stark and sharp, hilarious and ominous, these pieces are scabbed, bruised, and prone to scarring. Many of the stories, set in Southern California, follow a teenage girl in the aftermath of her beloved father’s death and capture her sister’s and mother’s encounters with men of all ages, as well as the girl’s budding attraction to her best friend, Esperanza. In and out of school, participating in wrestling and softball, attending church with her hysterically complicated family, and dominating boys in arm wrestling, she grapples with her burgeoning queerness and her emerging body, becoming wary of clarity rather than hoping for it." --Amazon.com. Genre:  Short stories. Black fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION BLA Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION BLA Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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