{"product_id":"women-i-know-by-katerina-gibson-9781761106811","title":"Women I Know","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnpicking the stitches of gender and genre, the stories in this searing, funny, haunting debut explore how our ideas of womanhood shape us, and what they cost us.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\nShortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing\u003cbr\u003e\nSMH Best Young Australian Novelist of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHighly commended, 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘My God darling—the women I know.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA young woman tries to cheat her algorithm, creating a wholesome online persona while her ‘real’ life dissipates. A grandmother speaks to her granddaughter through the fog of generations. Two lovers divide over alternative meat options. A factory worker fits eyes in companion dolls until she is called on to install her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe women I know are sharp, absurd, sly, wrong, wry, repressed, hungry, horny, bold, envious, dominating, uncertain, overdetermined, underpaid, bored, smart, crystallizing, themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA burning talent with growing international recognition, Katerina Gibson’s work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKill Your Darlings\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOverland\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. She is the Pacific regional winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and recipient of the Felix Meyer Scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Smart, gleeful, savage, funny and genuinely brilliant. I kept wanting to cry out with joy! Katerina Gibson is a superstar.’ \u003cstrong\u003eMiles Allinson, author of \u003cem\u003eIn Moonland\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFever of Animals\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘[These stories] demonstrate an intellectual and imaginative power in their fearless probing into corners of the human world we didn’t even think existed until now. ... an author prepared to question and disrupt everything. This is an assured collection, audacious, dark, comic, and full of surprises – it demands to be reread, several times.’ \u003cstrong\u003eDebra Adelaide, ABR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWomen I Know\u003c\/em\u003e is a rich, contemporary blend of inventive and entertaining writing. Dark and funny, Katerina Gibson’s stories are sparkling with ideas – it’s thrilling that the future of Australian fiction is held in such talented hands. \u003cstrong\u003eBen Walter, author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Fear Was\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Come for the bold conceits, stay for the savage disaffection. These mind-bending stories startle, surprise, beguile and devastate. Gibson’s talent, in striking out from the shores of realism, is to bring us closer to the truths of contemporary life.' \u003cstrong\u003eJo Lennan, author of \u003cem\u003eIn the Time of Foxes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘[T]he pieces in Gibson’s fiction debut create an elegant and subtle whole, with delicate prose that moves the reader as expertly as it disturbs them.’ \u003cstrong\u003eGeorgia Brough, \u003cem\u003eBooks+Publishing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Katerina Gibson is a serious writer whose talent is going to envelop the whole world--you heard it here first. Reading this book made me genuinely excited and genuinely appalled by the depth of Gibson's promise.' \u003cstrong\u003eEllena Savage, author of \u003cem\u003eBlueberries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46672723345644,"sku":"9781761106811","price":32.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/369263482815.jpg?v=1752858773","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/women-i-know-by-katerina-gibson-9781761106811","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}