Women! In! Peril!

By: Jessie Ren Marshall

Narrated by: Rachel Noe Nishizawa

Bloomsbury presents Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall, read by Rachel Noe Nishizawa.

Full of wry humor, sharp social commentary, and an irrepressible sense of hope, a ferociously feminist debut short story collection from award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall.

In this brash and unforgettable collection, we meet a sex bot trying to outlast her return policy, a skeptical lesbian grappling with her wife’s mysterious pregnancy, and a post-Earth colonist struggling to maintain her faith in humanity as she travels to “Planet B.” Whether they exist in the grounded realism of a college dance studio or the speculative world of Deep Space, these women push against social norms and family expectations to reclaim their power, understand their mistakes, and find a better future.

Hilarious, heartbreaking, and defiantly optimistic, the twelve stories in Women! In! Peril! balance humor and gravitas to explore the complexities of queerness, toxic relationships, parenting and divorce, Asian and Asian American identity, and so much more.

©2024 Jessie Ren Marshall (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

2 are worth the purchase alone

I've learned short stories aren't my preference (I prefer long arcs of character development). Also many of these included calloused humor, or harsh realities that ring all too true.

That said I found 2 of the stories, their characters, and poetic writing more tender and so beautiful they were worth the purchase alone. My faves by far are Late Girl, and Our Country Daughter.