Girl Country - and Other Stories

Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize

A near-future farmer battling environmental crises takes ina mysterious girl he finds on the roadside. A bus driver navigates throughtreacherous weather and memories of her tragic past as she races to savechildren from the end of the world. A woman keeps giving birth to children fromdifferent time periods. And a woman struggles with her young daughter mysteriouslytransforming into something wild and unruly, confronting themes of motherhoodand family.

In Girl Country, stories range frommedieval Belgium to the near-future of the American Midwest, populated bymothers and monsters, mermaids and milkmaids, nuns and bus drivers—women inevery walk of life, but particularly working-class women, navigating theintersection of the mundane and the magical. Perfect for fans of Orange Worldand Animal Wife, these are stories about women with teeth—wild andalive.