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Emily Geminder. (2017). Dead Girls and Other Stories. Dzanc Books.

Emily Geminder. 2017. Dead Girls and Other Stories. Dzanc Books.

Emily Geminder, Dead Girls and Other Stories. Dzanc Books, 2017.

Emily Geminder. Dead Girls and Other Stories. Dzanc Books, 2017.

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   • bioText: Emily Geminder's short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Mississippi Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House Open Bar, Witness, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and her work was noted in Best American Essays 2016. She has worked as a journalist in New York and Cambodia, and is a Provost's Fellow in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California.
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"Geminder's book showcases an acute sensitivity to worlds both inside and out. There's real delicacy to the craft but underneath all the skill is a shaking sense of purpose, and a great love of the brokenness and beauty of humanity. This is a substantive, memorable debut."
—Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

With lyric artistry and emotional force, Emily Geminder's debut collection charts a vivid constellation of characters fleeing their own stories. A teenage runaway and her mute brother seek salvation in houses, buses, the backseats of cars. Preteen girls dial up the ghosts of fat girls. A crew of bomber pilots addresses the sparks of villagers below. In Cambodia, four young women confuse themselves with the ghost of a dead reporter. And from India to New York to Phnom Penh, dead girls both real and fantastic appear again and again: as obsession, as threat, as national myth and collective nightmare.

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"Geminder's book showcases an acute sensitivity to worlds both inside and out. There's real delicacy to the craft but underneath all the skill is a shaking sense of purpose, and a great love of the brokenness and beauty of humanity. This is a substantive, memorable debut."
—Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

With lyric artistry and emotional force, Emily Geminder's debut collection charts a vivid constellation of characters fleeing their own stories. A teenage runaway and her mute brother seek salvation in houses, buses, the backseats of cars. Preteen girls dial up the ghosts of fat girls. A crew of bomber pilots addresses the sparks of villagers below. In Cambodia, four young women confuse themselves with the ghost of a dead reporter. And from India to New York to Phnom Penh, dead girls both real and fantastic appear again and again: as obsession, as threat, as national myth and collective nightmare.

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     "Geminder offers a distinctly female perspective, often through a collective, yet sharply personal narrator. History pulls along the underside of these stories, both individual and global, deepening her world and connecting her themes across time and circumstance."
     —Arkansas International
     
     

     "This is not a collection of stories overly dependent on plot; these are stories that attain their power through description, through syntax. ... Death is the ultimate struggle, and it hangs over every word of this collection."
     —JMWW
     
     

     "The stories in Geminder's mesmerizing Dead Girls seamlessly weave gender and geopolitics and the dreamlike worlds of characters struggling to find hope and reason within their near apocalypses. The thread of unease that runs through the collection is insightful, rebellious, and righteous."
     —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock
     
     

     "An electrifying read. Written in dreamy prose, these stories take the world we know and turn it inside out, making us question everything we think we know about our places in it. But don't let the dream-like quality fool you: These stories have teeth. Seductive but fierce, full of keen insights and tenacious questions, Geminder's fearless and utterly original debut collection will haunt and nourish you."
     —Dana Johnson, author of In the Not Quite Dark and Elsewhere, California
     
     

     "Geminder's stirring collection explores death-haunted scenarios from unexpected angles. Whether the characters are caught in the currents of Cambodian history or the private mythologies of an American summer, they're often plunged into moments that dissolve all certainties about identity, consciousness, and the body. Etched with a matter-of-fact lyricism, Dead Girls will haunt you, sure, but that's barely half the story."
     —Jeff Jackson, author of Mira Corpora

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     "An eerie convergence of female identities and experiences across time and space... Startling, far-reaching tales of women who haunt and are haunted."
     —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
     
     "In her debut collection, Geminder covers a range of subjects and injects them with her own brand of liveliness and creativity...Geminder's stories are refreshing, surprising, and evocative."
     —Publishers Weekly
     
     "Geminder's book showcases an acute sensitivity to worlds both inside and out. There's real delicacy to the craft but underneath all the skill is a shaking sense of purpose, and a great love of the brokenness and beauty of humanity. This is a substantive, memorable debut."
     —Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
     
     

     "The stories in Geminder's mesmerizing Dead Girls seamlessly weave gender and geopolitics and the dreamlike worlds of characters struggling to find hope and reason within their near apocalypses. The thread of unease that runs through the collection is insightful, rebellious, and righteous."
     —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock
     
     

     "An electrifying read. Written in dreamy prose, these stories take the world we know and turn it inside out, making us question everything we think we know about our places in it. But don't let the dream-like quality fool you: These stories have teeth. Seductive but fierce, full of keen insights and tenacious questions, Geminder's fearless and utterly original debut collection will haunt you and nourish you at the same time."
     —Dana Johnson, author of In the Not Quite Dark and Elsewhere, California
     
     

     "Geminder's stirring collection explores death-haunted scenarios from unexpected angles. Whether the characters are caught in the currents of Cambodian history or the...

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     August 7, 2017
     In her debut collection, Geminder covers a range of subjects and injects them with her own brand of liveliness and creativity. “Coming To” uses dictionary definitions to both frame and splinter a narrative about a reporter’s unsettling experiences in Cambodia, including a rash of unexplained fainting episodes. The title story, written in the second person, is structured around a four-day anatomy workshop. Abundant with gallows humor, the workshop serves as a backdrop to a self-examination by one of the participants. The straightforward and affecting “Houses” tracks the rough existence of a homeless family. In “Nausicaa,” the narrator addresses a departed friend, recounting their experiences together through the lens of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The eerie and memorable “Edie,” the collection’s best story, has a fair number of references to death as well, but it’s left to the reader to decide how literally they are to be taken. At the core of the story is a tight friendship between the authoritative but enigmatic title character and narrator Ruthie, who first meets her in kindergarten. Through a child’s eyes, friendship, the rocky road to adolescence, and the dangers of the modern world are compellingly treated. Geminder’s stories are refreshing, surprising, and evocative.

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     Starred review from August 15, 2017
     A chorus of dead and living girls and women in nine stories.Geminder's cohesive debut features diverse settings, but whether in India, Cambodia, or New York, her female protagonists face similar anxieties. These are the horrors of the body, the limitations of language, and the constant presence of death. Events recur and become motifs. In "Edie," the narrator recounts the rape of a high school girl. The strange part, she thinks, is her own inability to remember how she first heard of it. "It was as if the story had been conveyed not in the usual way, person to person, but had existed quietly inside me and was only now revealed." In "Coming To," the staff of a Cambodian newspaper begins using the term "rape-murder" in their articles despite questions from the copy chief. "Almost every day, there's at least one rape in the paper....Sometimes they are rape-murders." There is an eerie convergence of female identities and experiences across time and space--mass faintings, possession by aliens and by spirits, and the horrific series of dead girls that permeates the lives of the living in the title story and throughout. We meet an old hippie man who refers to all girls by the same name--Annie--and in "Phnom Penh," four women, narrating in a collective first person, give voice to this concept themselves: "We'd come to replace a dead girl," they explain. "We were replacements," they note. "We were girls." Startling, far-reaching tales of women who haunt and are haunted.

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