A manual for how to love us : stories
(Book)

"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."--,Provided by publisher.

"In these unconventional stories, Erin Slaughter shatters the stereotype of the sorrowful woman in distress, queering the domestic and honoring the feral in all of us. Set across oft-overlooked towns in the American South, grieving women embrace their wildest impulses as they attempt to master their lives: one woman becomes a "gazer" at a fraternity house; another merges with 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 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. 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.",Back cover.