Exile in Guyville : stories

Exile in Guyville Stories

Amy Lee Lillard

Book - 2024

"In the stories of Exile in Guyville, probable futures and alternate realities take aim at unruly women, and show how we refuse to be ruled. With a speculative and surreal style, Lillard's prize-winning collection explores a living museum of women from across time; a life app that forces women to comply with beauty standards; a future internment camp with a literal race for survival; and a former band of middle-aged Riot Grrrls, taking vengeance with a new power. With humor, rage, and a razor-sharp eye for detail, Exile in Guyville renders the invisible as seen, and the powerless as empowered"--

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Subjects
Short stories.
Genres
Short stories
Published
Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, LTD 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Amy Lee Lillard (author)
Edition
First Edition
Physical Description
138 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781960145208
  • Exile in Guyville
  • Typical girls
  • Corporeal
  • Blackbird
  • Wintersong
  • Things you say.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Each of these six enthralling speculative shorts from Lillard (Dig Me Out) explores female agency to powerful effect. Several offer dark views of the future. Women are imprisoned and subjugated in both "Blackbird," set in a gendered internment camp, and in the title story, about living women who are displayed in a museum and the new curator determined to effect change from within. The heroine of "Typical Girls" is implanted with an oppressive AI companion marketed as a tool to improve women's lives. "Corporeal" explores the idea of alternate realities and alternate selves, while the quiet "Wintersong" delves into the dissolution of a relationship. The final story, "Things You Say," sends the collection out on a slightly more hopeful note, showing women reclaiming their agency, inspired by their Riot Grrrl idols. Brief but mighty, this packs a hefty punch. (May)

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Excerpt from page 21: "So the next Friday Night Art, I watched the donors, as they watched me. I saw how they stood, chest out, spine straight, feet forward. I saw how men of this future were a bit taller, heartier, then men of my time. I saw how they were the same too, how they were the ones who truly had choices." Excerpted from Exile in Guyville by Amy Lee Lillard All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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