Shut Up You're Pretty (Paperback)

Tea Mutonji

ISBN 10: 1551527553 / ISBN 13: 9781551527550

Published by Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, 2019

About this Item

Paperback. A high-wire collection of darkly humorous stories about a young woman floating in and out of her skin.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 humour, they interrogate the moments in which femininity, womanness, and identity are not only questioned but also imposed. A high-wire collection of darkly humorous stories about a young woman floating in and out of her skin. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shut Up You're Pretty (Paperback)
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551527553
• ISBN 13: 9781551527550
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Winner, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction (Publishing Triangle); Finalist, Rogers Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Prize

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.

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.