Peach Pit

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Astunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from LaurenGroff, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, and thirteen other award-winning andbestselling authors Amiddle-aged Black woman exacts revenge on the aggressively average men shemeets on dating sites. A girl buries pieces of herself in a hole beneath an appletree, hoping to escape her mother's life of struggle and servitude. A group ofteenage girls compete for the title of "Worst Girl in America." A youngwoman in Taiwan becomes infatuated with a female scam caller, a fleeting ghostof a love that blossoms from strangeness. And a wealthy woman goes tounconventional, and perhaps not entirely ethical, lengths to find her dreamman. Inthese sixteen stories, we see women at their most monstrous--as con artists andmurderers, cutthroats and scalpers, ruled by ambition and grief and spite. Charactersfor those tired of being told to play nice. Dressed to the nines in morallygray, the stories in this anthology comprise an envelope full of teeth: eachone distinct, unsettling, and sharp enough to rip out a throat.