Back Talk

✍ Scribed by Lazarin, Danielle

• Book ID: 109529430
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 614 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From an award-winning debut writer, a beautiful and unapologetic collection of stories about women's unexpressed desires and needs, and the unexpected ways they resurface

"Deceptively quiet but packs a powerful punch . . . The best collection I've read in years, from a phenomenal new talent." —Celeste Ng

"Thank God, a collection of stories about women who don't hate themselves, don't hate other women, don't hate their bodies, don't hate their husbands, or even their ex-husbands . . . women who are simply, like me, trying to figure out what it means to be alive, to be in love, to be daughters, parents, siblings, wives, citizens, human beings." —Eileen Pollack

In "Floor Plans," a woman at the end of her marriage tests her power when she inadvertently befriends the neighbor trying to buy her apartment. In "Appetite," a sixteen-year old grieving her mother's death experiences first love and questions how much more...