![]() It is all very funny until it is not and then it is funny again. So, when I read A Few Normal Things That Happen A Lot, the second story in Kirby’s collection, which opens with a woman who is told to smile but has recently grown fangs, and in retribution she bites off the man’s finger then gets indigestion from accidentally swallowing his wedding ring, I laughed, I smiled, and I thought, “Nice.” It is in every directive not to walk at home alone at night and every sexual assault plot thrown casually into our favorite TV shows in a lazy attempt at character development. ![]() Most likely, it would be a funny story about a guy I went on one date with who simply could not understand that a woman was not interested in him, because don’t you know he makes a lot of money and has a very big loft and I mean would you look at this photo of his abs?īut the worst-case scenario-the one where the guy from the random Tinder date does show up at your door-is what women have been primed for. He has my address.” Sure, most likely I would never see this person again. But as the texts kept coming, his messages pointed, veering towards aggressive, I thought, “Shit. The next day, he sent a barrage of texts, and finally, a photo of his bare torso that was inches away from revealing his nude bottom half.Īt first, I laughed-even felt a little sympathy for this person’s misguided attempt at a connection. When I checked my phone an hour later, he had left a two-minute-long voicemail demanding further explanation. The next day, he asked to see me again, and I sent off a polite “this isn’t what I’m looking for right now” text. The day I began reading Shit Cassandra Saw, I happened to go on a particularly awkward Tinder date that ended with a particularly slobbery kiss. Men are incidental, until, of course, they are not. ![]() There are the occasional men who orbit their lives, with whom they fight, hurt, cry, and kiss, but only two of these 21 stories are told from the perspective of a man. ![]() Kirby is a collection of stories about women: the women relegated to single lines in our history books and the women who are never written about at all women on the verge of breaking down, who broke down long ago, and who have only just begun. ![]()
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