Some of Them Will Carry Me

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A fiercely original debut collection that centers Black women in moments of imminent change.Giada Scodellaro’s debut is a fiercely original collection of stories ranging in length, style, and tone—a collage of social commentary, surrealism, recipes, folklore, art—that centers Black women in moments of imminent change. This is writing grounded in observation, bordering on the voyeuristic and saturated with detail: a child’s legs bent upon the small bosom of their mother, three-piece suits floating in a river, a man holding a rotting banana during sex, wet cardboard, a woman walking naked through a tunnel. In language that is lyrical, minimal, and often absurd, the diverse stories in Some of Them Will Carry Me together deconstruct intimacy while building a surprising, unnerving new reality of language, culture, consumption, and loss. Giada Scodellaro is a Black writer born in Naples, Italy, and raised in the Bronx, New York. She holds an MFA from The New School. This is her first book.
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