Ruin & Other StoriesRuin & Other Stories

Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try-with varying degrees of success-to outmanouvre the violence that threatens to define their lives. There's the physical violence of men against their bodies-and sometimes the violence they exact in revenge. While doubts about a romantic partner, an abandonment by a sister, the fallout of a parent's porgnography addiction, the betrayal of a friend, even the desire to touch a stranger's fur-like body are subtler aggressions that pack their own kinds of punches.