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A debut, interlinked collection of stories exploring the primal
nature of women’s grief—offering insight into the profound
experience of loss and the absurd ways in which we seek control in
an unruly world. Seamlessly shifting between the speculative and
the blindingly real, balancing the bizarre with the subtle
brutality of the mundane, A Manual for How to Love Us is a tender
portrait of women trying their best to survive, love, and find
genuine meaning in the aftermath of loss. In these unconventional
and unpredictably connected stories, Erin Slaughter shatters the
stereotype of the soft-spoken, sorrowful woman in distress,
queering the domestic and honoring the feral in all of us. In each
story, grieving women embrace their wildest impulses as they
attempt to master their lives: one woman becomes a “gazer” at a
fraternity house, another slowly moves into her otherworldly
stained-glass art, a couple speaks only in their basement’s black
box, and a thruple must decide what to do when one partner
disappears. The women in Erin Slaughter’s stories suffer messy
breaks, whisper secrets to the ghosts tangled in the knots of their
hair, eat raw meat to commune with their inner wolves, and build
deadly MLM schemes along the Gulf Coast. Set across oft-overlooked
towns in the American South, A Manual for How to Love Us spotlights
women who are living on the brink and clinging to its precipitous
edge. Lyrical and surprisingly humorous, A Manual for How to Love
Us is an exciting debut that reveals the sticky complications of
living in a body, in all its grotesquerie and glory.
This collection of poetry interrogates the impact of grief and
partner violence on a family lineage, as well as the connections
between sorrow and joy as they relate to poetry, women's writing,
and the process of the "confessional." Inextricably woven into
these investigations of various types of grief is the question of
what gendered and socioeconomic statuses we bring with us when we
choose poetry as a method of recording the intimacies of a life.
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