num_pages: 229
description: Following her acclaimed debut Show Her a Flower A Bird A Shadow award-winning author Peg Alford Pursell explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables. A Girl Goes into the Forest immerses readers in the complex desires contradictions and sorrows of daughters wives and husbands artists siblings and mothers.In forests literal and metaphorical the characters try fail and try again to see the world to hear each other and to speak the truth of their longings. Powerful lyrical and precise Pursells stories call up a world at once mysterious and recognizable.A Girl Goes into the Forest invites fans of Lydia Davis and Helen Oyeyemi into a world where no one can deter a person from her mistakes.
language: English
title: A Girl Goes into the Forest
publisher: Dzanc Books