Women I Know

2022 short story collection by Australian author Katerina Gibson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Women I Know is a 2022 short story collection by the Australian author Katerina Gibson originally published by Simon and Schuster.[1]

AuthorKaterina Gibson
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story collection
PublisherSimon and Schuster Australia
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Women I Know
AuthorKaterina Gibson
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story collection
PublisherSimon and Schuster Australia
Publication date
6 July 2022
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages256 pp.
Awards2023 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, winner
ISBN9781761106811
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It was the winner of the 2023 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.[2]

Contents

  • "Glitches in the algorithm"
  • "Meat alternatives for the motherland: a review"
  • "Orchestra of animals"
  • "Constellation in the left eye"
  • "A dog's world"
  • "Intermission I: all the stories I started but never finished because of the time-restrictive and distracting nature of the gig economy"
  • "A tight schedule"
  • "All noise through the fog will be forgiven"
  • "Women I know"
  • "The shape of"
  • "Preparation"
  • "Intermission II: on the mythology in the room (field notes)"
  • "Fertile soil"
  • "Times you let anger slip on your throat"
  • "Two hundred and one days of forests burning"
  • "When the river floods our house"
  • "As the nation still mourns"

Critical reception

In Meanjin Matilda Dixon-Smith states that "Gibson is a deft writer, with a curious bluntness to her prose that occasionally reveals delicious images", and that "In her more confident moments, and more ambitious stories, Gibson's writing is chewy and engaging".[3]

Writing in Australian Book Review Debra Adelaide noted that the stories in this collection have "an intellectual and imaginative power in their fearless probing into corners of the human world we didn't even think existed until now." She concluded that this "is an assured collection, audacious, dark, comic, and full of surprises."[4]

See also

Notes

  • Dedication: For my mother.

Awards

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