Abstract
Women. Young women, old women. The hair-obsessed, the politically driven, the sure-footed, the bonybutted, the awkward and compulsive and alone. Sleep-deprived and testy. Exhausted and accepting. Among the innumerable wives, husbands, sisters, and in-laws vexed by short temper and insecurity throughout the collection, Cynthia Flood's protagonists stand out as masters of a reality that the rest of the world will only partially understand. New from the Journey Prize winning author, Red Girl Rat Boy is a collection of astonishing range and assured technique, whose voices'gothic, peculiar, domestic, and strange'remain as passionate and complex as ever.