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Kira Gresoski

    Bodies of Water & Women
    • 2020

      Bodies of Water & Women

      • 112 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      A girl grows up in a radioactive hometown. Her bloodline intertwines with rivers and streams that have been polluted with toxic waste. She's raised by a village of women who, like the water, remember everything. She learns resilience from generations of single mothers, waitresses, teachers, secretaries, nurses, artists, dancers, and witches. A woman faces grief, death, illness, joy, love, and interdependence like a poet lost in prayer, or a natural scientist, one who studies mushrooms, which transform toxicity into tenderness. She writes her way through the mud and the muck. She imagines the freedom of breaking the cycle.

      Bodies of Water & Women