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Sympathy for Wild Girls by Demree McGhee
4.75
challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

WOW! I loved this debut collection of short stories from Demtee McGhee. It lingers on the uncomfortable parts of growing up as a Black woman in America, leaning into the gross, the misshapen and the just plain ugly and rendering it tender and haunting and beautiful. the characters in these stories are for sure strange people, but they are also human and alive and McGhee captures that tension between voueryism and honest self reflection well.