As If She Had a Say: Stories

A new story collection from Jennifer Fliss, author of The Predatory Animal Ball

Who has a right to tell us how to experience our grief? How to perform–or not perform–the roles society prescribes to us based on our various points of identity?

As If She Had a Say, the second story collection from Jennifer Fliss, uses an absurdist lens to showcase characters–predominantly women–plumbing their resources as they navigate misogyny, abuse, and grief. In these stories, a woman melts in the face of her husband’s cruelty; a seven-tablespoons-long woman lives inside a refrigerator and engages in an affair with the man of the house; a balloon-animal artist attends a funeral to discover he was invited as more than entertainment; and a man loses all his nouns.

Fans of Karen Russell and Carmen Maria Machado will appreciate how As If She Had a Say‘s inventive narratives expose inequities by taking us on imaginative romps through domesticity and patriarchal expectations. Each story functions as a magnifying glass through which we might examine our own lives and see ourselves more clearly.

Author: Jennifer Fliss
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Published: 07/15/2023
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780810146259
Language: English