{"product_id":"kill-marguerite-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"Kill Marguerite and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMegan Milks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kill Marguerite and Other Stories\" collects thirteen risk-taking stories obsessed with crossing boundaries, whether formal or corporeal. Narrative genres are giddily mongrelized: the Sweet Valley twins get stuck in a choose-your-own-adventure story; Mean Girls-like violence gets embedded within a classic video game. Protagonists cycle through a series of startling, sometimes violent, changes in gender, physiology, and even species, occasionally blurring into other characters or swapping identities entirely. One woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and a Greek god impregnates a man s thigh with a sword. More than just a straightforward celebration of the carnivalesque, though, these fictions are deeply engaged, both critically and politically, with the ways that social power operates on, and through, queer bodies.\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMegan Milks lives in Chicago. Her work has been included in \"30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Writers\"; \"Wreckage of Reason\"; and \"Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire,\" as well as many journals. She is the editor of the anthology \"The \u0026amp;NOW Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing,\" and co-editor of the volume \"Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives,\" published by Routledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 207\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lambda Literary Awards (2015)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772787786016,"sku":"9780989473606","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c0347825800aa67668d7f930f0971487.webp?v=1780414303","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/kill-marguerite-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}