The Feminist Press at CUNY
Sympathy for Wild Girls
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Author: Demree McGhee
ISBN: 9781558613386
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 216
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:
Winner of the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction
A debut collection of surreal, skin-piercing stories about the boundless longing of queer Black women.
A runaway seeks shelter from violence with a pack of wild coyotes. A young woman falls into a hypocritical crew of white Christian YouTube influencers. A mother witnesses her daughter's prophecy about the end of the world come true. In Sympathy for Wild Girls, young Black women yearn for intimacy and hunt for belonging in a subtly warped version of our world, where social mores loom like shadows and bigotry shape-shifts.
Skirting the chasms that lurk in our common notions of "girlhood"--and their heightened peril for queer women of color--Demree McGhee's characters track the prints of their desire and pain to the edges of reality, finding refuge in unlikely places. Fighting self-loathing and societal abuse, they explore the bounds of their feral strength and ugliest truths, howling at the moon to be known.
