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Book SynopsisThe girls on the prowl in The Terrible Girls are indeed terrible—relentless in love, ruthless in betrayal. These thematically linked stories depict a contemporary Gothic world in which body parts are traded for love, wounds never heal, and self-sacrifice is often the only way out.
In this brilliantly original work, Rebecca Brown gives us haunting parables of betrayal and love, of loss and resurrection, of loneliness and solidarity. Like a modern Djuna Barnes, Brown creates a language of telling that is fiercely beautiful and honest. This book is a love story unlike any you have read before. Its subversive and passionate transformation carry the lesbian literary voice onto the 21st century.—Joan Nestle
A dry, witty, graceful—if savage—gift.—Mary Gaitskill
The Terrible Girls comes from one of the fiercest, most potent, original writers around: a bloody flayer of skins, both other''s and her own . . . a work of possessed
