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Queer Book Club - GIRLFRIENDS

  • Lost City Books 2467 18th Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20009 United States (map)

Queer Book Club will be meeting Wednesday, March 13th, at 7 pm. We’ll be reading Girlfriends by Emily Zhou.

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompromising and hilarious lucidity. Attending to the intimacy of Gen Z women's lives, these stories move from the provinces to the metropolis, from chaotic student accommodation to insecure jobs, from parties to dates to the nights after, from haplessness to some kind of power.

Funny and devastating, like a trans Mary McCarthy, Zhou depicts with shocking precision the choices and shifts through which we work on each other and ourselves. Tender, merciless, and gracious, Girlfriends is a breath of fresh air.