Summary
Unpicking 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.
Winner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing SMH Best Young Australian Novelist of 2023 Highly commended, 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award
‘My God darling—the women I know.’
A young woman …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761106811 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761106813 |
| Author: | Katerina Gibson |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 210mm x 142mm |
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Critics Review
‘Smart, gleeful, savage, funny and genuinely brilliant. I kept wanting to cry out with joy! Katerina Gibson is a superstar.’
A solitary camper at a beach observes the families playing in the surf; a lonely woman laments her fractured relationship with her reclusive teenage son; a young marine biologist privately hired by a wealthy woman comes to realise her strange new position is as murky as the oceans she studies. These stories and more comprise Women I Know, the debut collection from prize-winning short fiction writer Katerina Gibson. In Women I Know Gibson expertly blends genre-bending plots with complex undercurrents of feeling and reflection. One of the book’s most startling, chilling and evocative stories, ‘Constellation in the Left Eye’, follows a young woman who paints the eyeballs of life-size dolls and one day realises she is painting her own reproduction-an unsettling premise which beautifully and subtly explores the male gaze. Indeed, the thread that connects the protagonists of these vastly different stories is the lived experiences shared by all women, complicated and disturbing as they often are. Read together, the 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. Readers of Krissy Kneen and Josephine Rowe will find Women I Know an engaging and nuanced collection. Georgia Brough is a teacher, critic and writer.
About The Author
Katerina Gibson
Katerina Gibson was born in 1994. She is a writer and a bookseller living in Naarm.
Her stories have appeared in:
- Granta
- Overland
- The Lifted Brow
- Island Online
- Going Down Swinging
- The Meanjin blog
- Kill Your Darlings’ New Australian Fiction 2020 anthology
Her short story ‘Fertile Soil’ was the Pacific regional winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Katerina is a 2021 Felix Meyer Scholar and a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2023.
Her short story collection Women I Know won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2023.
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