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Shut up, you're pretty, stories, Téa Mutonji

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Shut up, you're pretty, stories, Téa Mutonji

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Shut up, you're pretty

Responsibility statement

Téa Mutonji

Sub title

stories

Summary

In Tea Mutonji's debut story collection, 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 to shave 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

Table Of Contents

Tits for cigs -- Parchment paper -- The event -- Down the lakeshore -- If not happiness -- This is only temporary -- Phyllis Green -- Ten-year reunion -- Theresa is getting married -- The boy from my youth -- The common room -- Men, tricks, and money -- The waitress -- Shut up you're pretty -- Women talking -- Old-fashioneds -- Sober party -- Tilapia fish

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Shut up, you are pretty

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