Things To Do When You're Goth In The Country

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Capturing the lyricism of lives without a future in southern Illinois, southern Indiana, and New York City,aThings to Do When You're Goth in the Countryaintroduces us to Chavisa Woods's people. They are smart and poor, lost and hoping not to be found,aand of high hopes but few if any expectations-inhabitants, mostly young, of a hidden country without a name that exists within America. The eight stories inaThings to Do When You're Goth in the Countryabring the underbelly of America into vivid focus. The strange and unique characters in this collection include a ozombieo who secretly resides in a local cemetery; a queer teen goth who is facing ostracism from her small-town, evangelical church; a Brooklyn artist who learns more about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict than he ever wanted to; and the UFOs that trouble a group of friends in the rural Midwest.aAnd the big sis who leaves New York City once a year to go home to see her little little and big little brothers and bear witness to the injuries from stripping copper wire from abandoned houses, and the smell of the meth lab in the woods nearby, and the sounds of the police scanner radio, and the early deaths that happen for a whole host of reasons.Capturing the lyricism of lives without a future in southern Illinois, southern Indiana, and New York City,aThings to Do When You're Goth in the Countryaintroduces us to Chavisa Woods's people. They are smart and poor, lost and hoping not to be found,aand of high hopes but few if any expectations-inhabitants, mostly young, of a hidden country without a name that exists within America. The eight stories inaThings to Do When You're Goth in the Countryabring the underbelly of America into vivid focus. The strange and unique characters in this collection include a ozombieo who secretly resides in a local cemetery; a queer teen goth who is facing ostracism from her small-town, evangelical church; a Brooklyn artist who learns more about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict than he ever wanted to; and the UFOs that trouble a group of friends in the rural Midwest.aAnd the big sis who leaves New York City once a year to go home to see her little little and big little brothers and bear witness to the injuries from stripping copper wire from abandoned houses, and the smell of the meth lab in the woods nearby, and the sounds of the police scanner radio, and the early deaths that happen for a whole host of reasons.
Brooklyn based writer CHAVISA WOODS is the author ofaThe Albino Album(Seven Stories Press, 2013) andaLove Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kinda(Fly by Night Press, 2009). Woods was the recipient of the 2014 Cobalt Prize for fiction and was a finalist in 2009 and 2014 for the Lambda Literary Award for fiction. Woods has appeared as a featured author at such notable venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art, City Lights Bookstore, Town Hall Seattle, the Brecht Forum, the Cervantes Institute, and St. Mark's Poetry Project.