商品簡介
Capturing the lyricism of lives without a future in a small western Pennsylvania town,Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country introduces us to Chavisa Woods's people. They are smart and poor, lost and hoping not to be found, a people of faith who have no god, and of high hopes but few if any expectations--inhabitants, mostly young, of a third world country without a name that exists within America, mostly hidden.
The eight stories in Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country give us Tyson, who wanted to be a film director, but enlisted instead; and a transgender man named Sheldon Peters, who wakes up one morning to find the Gaza Strip on his head, where the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is playing out. There are the schoolchildren who prefer playing in the cemetery to the park or school yard, and the homeless prostitute they meet there, Tanya, who becomes their friend and whose world is somehow not so at odds with theirs. And the big sis who leaves New York City once a year to go home to western Pennsylvania 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 and never quite seem like tragedies because of what this life is that the dead leave behind by dying.
作者簡介
Brooklyn based writer CHAVISA WOODS is the author of The Albino Album(Seven Stories Press, 2013) and Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind (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.
