{"product_id":"all-daughters-are-awesome-everywhere-stories-paperback-softback-9781496241306","title":"All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere; Stories (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496241306","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAll Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStories\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDeMisty D. Bellinger (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496241306\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e188 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.4 cm, 0.262 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Bellinger's prose is honest and unflinching. A thoughtful, observant collection of short stories from an important voice.\"-\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This is an intimate collection that illuminates how the mundane moments of life can become more significant than we realize, and sometimes even catastrophic. Compelling and relatable.\"-Wendy J. Fox, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAll Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e adds to the cannon of literature on what it means to be female, but also on what it means to be truly seen by another.\"-Lara Lillibridge, \u003ci\u003eMER Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eAll Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e DeMisty D. Bellinger has gifted us a book of many worlds beneath the same roof, its stories and characters at turns brash, tender, joyous, sly, and always deeply, messily human. I loved dwelling in these pages. I loved the ride this collection took me on: one full of surprises and heart.”-emily m. danforth, author of \u003ci\u003ePlain Bad Heroines\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Miseducation of Cameron Post\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“DeMisty Bellinger’s new collection is full of surprising connections, complex questions, and wonderfully human perspectives on relationships and networks of kinship. I wanted to both race through it and savor every moment.”-Ilana Masad, author of \u003ci\u003eAll My Mother’s Lovers: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The stories in \u003ci\u003eAll Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e are a lesson in creative risk-taking. With this bold collection of genre-bending tales, Bellinger invites us to dismantle binaries around sexuality and gender, grief and comfort, desire and repulsion, damnation and redemption in ways that challenge and champion the messy mystery that is the human heart.”-Sheree L. Greer, author of \u003ci\u003eOnce and Future Lovers: Tenth Anniversary Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Infectious reading. \u003ci\u003eAll Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e is a feast of storytelling where women-mothers, daughters, and lovers-travel the roads between a world that wishes to constrain them and the ferocious realm of their own desires.”-Elwin Cotman, author of \u003ci\u003eWeird Black Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“These stories are \u003ci\u003ehot\u003c\/i\u003e. Inventive, fierce, simmering with erotic energy and the sheer beautiful unexpectedness of women asking for more and better.”-Miciah Bay Gault, author of \u003ci\u003eGoodnight Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Open this book to any page-you can’t lose. \u003ci\u003eAll Daughters are Awesome Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e is indeed awesome on every page. These meticulously detailed stories earned both my admiration and love. Great reading experience.”-Rion Amilcar Scott, author of \u003ci\u003eThe World Doesn’t Require You\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fantastical, sensual, and as beguilingly strange as they are insightful and real, the stories of \u003ci\u003eAll Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e are centered around intimate familial or romantic relationships, featuring protagonists who make awesome discoveries-from the beautiful to the horrible-in seemingly mundane situations. The protagonists in each story come from marginalized communities, which sometimes exacerbates their problems but always allows for unique perspectives and epiphanies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A violinist nearly hits a bicyclist with her car on her rush to rehearsal, leading to a blissful affair and speculation about the effect of love on her violin playing. The whispering of schoolgirls leads a teacher to consider her own fears and failings. In the title story the nature of motherhood, fatherhood, and familial pride plays against a backdrop of death and high school theater.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These are stories of human frailty and newfound strengths, with surprising confrontations. The writing is rich and playful, whether the characters are coy or startlingly direct, creating worlds in which the metaphorical might become literal in the blink of an eye. DeMisty D. Bellinger finds magic in the smallest moments and makes the biggest moments resonate with a quiet intensity.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Part I\u003cbr\u003e Black Girl’\u003cbr\u003es Magic\u003cbr\u003e Acquiring Joshua\u003cbr\u003e Dreams Formed in Rain\u003cbr\u003e A Lost Day\u003cbr\u003e Three Tiers of Toppings\u003cbr\u003e Love Your Braider\u003cbr\u003e Horse Sense\u003cbr\u003e Brother Charlie’\u003cbr\u003es Intended\u003cbr\u003e Part II\u003cbr\u003e Awesome Everywhere\u003cbr\u003e Trying to Balance\u003cbr\u003e Jubilee\u003cbr\u003e The Claimer of Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Your Father Died\u003cbr\u003e Part III\u003cbr\u003e Tiger-Free Days\u003cbr\u003e Ballad of Jane\u003cbr\u003e Free Fish\u003cbr\u003e Cat, Catfish, Cat\u003cbr\u003e Tooth Fairy\u003cbr\u003e Carry the Weight\u003cbr\u003e Part IV\u003cbr\u003e Ladybird, Ladybird\u003cbr\u003e Whisper Network\u003cbr\u003e The Ballad of Frankie Baker\u003cbr\u003e Three Studies in Patience\u003cbr\u003e Part V\u003cbr\u003e Going Home\u003cbr\u003e The Negotiation of Space\u003cbr\u003e French Fry Soup\u003cbr\u003e Good Fit\u003cbr\u003e Part VI\u003cbr\u003e We All Have Our Ghosts\u003cbr\u003e Dancing Queen\u003cbr\u003e All the Dreams You’\u003cbr\u003eve Yet to Have\u003cbr\u003e L’\u003cbr\u003eautunno\u003cbr\u003e An Opossum Tale\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600288084248,"sku":"9781496241306","price":16.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/all-daughters-are-awesome-everywhere-stories-paperback-softback-9781496241306","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}