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Fiction Contemporary Women

Shut Up You're Pretty

by (author) Tea Mutonji

Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2019
Category
Contemporary Women, Short Stories (single author), Contemporary Women, Lesbian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551527550
    Publish Date
    Apr 2019
    List Price
    $17.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781551527567
    Publish Date
    Jun 2019
    List Price
    $11.99

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Winner, Trillium Book Award

 

In Téa Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother reconnects with her daughter through their shared interest in fish, and a young woman decides on shaving her head in the waiting room of an abortion clinic.

These punchy, sharply observed stories blur the lines between longing and choosing, exploring the narrator’s experience as an involuntary one. Tinged with pathos and humor, they interrogate the moments in which femininity, womanness, and identity are not only questioned but also imposed.

Shut Up You’re Pretty is the first book to be published under VS. Books, a series of books curated and edited by writer-musician Vivek Shraya featuring work by new and emerging Indigenous or Black writers, or writers of color.

 

This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

About the author

Téa Mutonji is a writer and poet. She has been awarded and published by The Scarborough Fair Magazine in fiction and nonfiction and by the Ontario Book Publishers Organization as a Scarborough Emerging Writer in the 2017 ''What's Your Story?'' contest. She is currently finishing her minor in Creative Writing. Shut Up You're Pretty is her first book.

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