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Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories
Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories
Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories
Audiobook7 hours

Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories

Written by Chavisa Woods

Narrated by Rudy Sanda and Rebecca Mitchell

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

3.5/5

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The eight stories in Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country paint a vivid image of people living on the fringes in America, people who don't do what you might expect them to. Not stories of triumph over adversity, but something completely other.

Described in language that is brilliantly sardonic, Woods's characters return repeatedly to places where they don't belong-often the places where they were born. In "Zombie," a coming-of-age story like no other, two young girls find friendship with a mysterious woman in the local cemetery. "Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street" describes a lesbian couple trying to repair their relationship by dropping acid at a Mensa party. In "A New Mohawk," a man in romantic pursuit of a female political activist becomes inadvertently much more familiar with the Palestine/Israel conflict than anyone would have thought possible. And in the title story, Woods brings us into the mind of a queer goth teenager who faces ostracism from her small-town evangelical church.

In the background are the endless American wars and occupations and too many early deaths of friends and family. This is fiction that is fresh and of the moment, even as it is timeless.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 16, 2018
ISBN9781977389435
Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I'm never sure whether to feel thankful or irritated when the final story in the book is far and away the best story in the book.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    The story named "Zombie" was a little interesting, but the rest of them read like beginner stories at English class. I'm sorry. I really wanted to like this book, but very little fell to Earth in the same as stories by Munro, Vonnegut, and Greene do.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Gay, churchy, rural fiction is my jam, and this short story collection does that so, so well.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    "Beginning my eighth-grade year, each year, one student in my school would die, and also, one girl would get pregnant, so I guess it evened out. It was a stable population."  Two teenage girls, who like to hang out in a cemetery, befriend a coke-sniffing, homeless woman, who lives in a busted down masoleum. Two goth, lesbians, attend a Mensa party, while on acid. An elderly Evangelical sect, finds theraputic relief, in group sex. This is a terrific collection of eight, dark, slightly twisted stories, focusing on meth-heads, goths, queers and other folks, who live on the fringes of rural society. Woods is a sharp and bright new voice in short fiction. I will be watching this author closely.