{"product_id":"girl-zoo-paperback-softback-9781573660709","title":"Girl Zoo (Paperback \/ softback) 9781573660709","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGirl Zoo\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAimee Parkison (Author), Carol Guess (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781573660709\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 February 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e170 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.3 x 13.9 x 1.5 cm, 0.233 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart dark angry fairytales, part avant-gothic myths, part surreal fever dreams, and always genuinely unique, \u003ci\u003eGirl Zoo \u003c\/i\u003eis a remarkable collaborative collection of concentrated narraticules about 56 captive women who are the same woman, not the same woman, and not not the same woman. Aimee Parkison and Carol Guess explore the thematics of the commodified and controlled female subject, complicating the problem, nuancing it, metaphorizing it so the reader sees it always anew, yet never offering any easy way out. The rhythms, syntax, vocabulary, and meta-logic feel childlike, yet the content remains relentlessly bloody, violent, somehow naively (and, of course, not naively at all) dangerous to the bone.\"\" - Lance Olsen, author of \u003ci\u003eDreamlives of Debris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"\u003ci\u003eGirl Zoo\u003c\/i\u003e is a breathtaking journey inside the cold hard facts of gender and sexual incarceration. Taking the \"woman as object\" trope to its logical extreme, these stories stage a break-in and dare the reader to imagine what it would take for women and girls to break out of the very narratives that keep us caged. A triumph of the imaginal in the face of a culture that would see us silenced, dead, and gone. Read these girls, change your life.\"\" - Lidia Yuknavitch, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Joan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA dark yet playful collection of short stories that pushes boundaries and blurs the lines between the real and surreal.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirl Zoo\u003c\/i\u003e is an enthralling and sometimes unsettling collection of short stories that examines how women in society are confined by the limitations and expectations of pop culture, politics, advertising, fashion, myth, and romance. In each story, a woman or girl is literally confined or held captive, and we can only watch as they are transformed into objects of terror and desire, plotting their escape from their cultural cages.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Taken as a whole, this experimental speculative fiction invites parallels to social justice movements focused on sexuality and gender, as well as cautionary tales for our precarious political movement. Parkison and Guess offer no solutions to their characters' captivity. Instead, they challenge their audience to read against the grain of conventional feminist dystopian narratives by inviting them inside the \"\"Girl Zoo\"\" itself.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Take a step inside the zoo and see for yourself. We dare you. Behind the bars, a world of wonder awaits.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fiction Collective 2","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619290771736,"sku":"9781573660709","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/girl-zoo-paperback-softback-9781573660709","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}