{"product_id":"shut-up-you-re-prettybooks","title":"Shut Up You're Pretty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCANADA READS RUNNER-UP, 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Trillium Book Award and Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; a \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn Tea Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother reconnects with her daughter through their shared interest in fish, and a young woman decides to shave her head in the waiting room of an abortion clinic. These punchy, sharply observed stories blur the lines between longing and choosing, exploring the narrator's experience as an involuntary one. Tinged with pathos and humour, they interrogate the moments in which femininity, womanness, and identity are not only questioned but also imposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShut Up You're Pretty\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to be published under the imprint VS. Books, a series of books curated and edited by writer-musician Vivek Shraya featuring work by new and emerging Indigenous or Black writers, or writers of colour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mutonji, Tea","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction M-R)","offer_id":45327472296160,"sku":"","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fcbbd2bd-ff3c-4c95-9e15-63e5ec871d2a.jpg?v=1713545806","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/shut-up-you-re-prettybooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}