Shut Up You're Pretty

Tea Mutonji

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Arsenal Pulp Press
16 May 2019

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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.

By: Tea Mutonji
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781551527550
ISBN 10: 1551527553
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 16 May 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Shut Up You're Pretty

"""Each story is a separate, richly described glimpse into an aspect of the protagonist's life, and together they form a whole picture of a young woman who is struggling to understand herself and her world."" --Book Riot ""The stories are vivid and unsettling in their detail ... Mutonji writes with grit and quick-witted humor. The ease with which these stories unfold is a facet of the author's craft: the prose holds its emotion in the same way the characters hold their pain."" --Quill and Quire (STARRED REVIEW)"

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Shut Up You're Pretty

Tea Mutonji

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