Southern Black Womanhood

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 3:00 PM EDT
Fenwick Library, Fenwick Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Fenwick Library

Halle Hill’s debut short story collection, Good Women, renders the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South with empathy and precision. Through stories that are both darkly funny and deeply human, Hill depicts moments of personal choice to show how these twelve women shape themselves. Of the book, author Deesha Philyaw says, “We meet mothers and daughters, lovers and friends, saints and aint’s––all longing for something, some place, someone. They are curious, messy, and determined, and Hill’s fierce and dazzling pen lets us feel every ounce of their complicated desires. Every mistake, every realization, every triumph, every tragedy. This is a fantastic firecracker of a collection I’ll return to again and again!”