Weird Girl Lit Bundle

Weird Girl Lit Bundle

Four books about women who don't fit. These are novels and novellas about female interiority at its most unruly: obsessive, embodied, transgressive, and often darkly funny.

This is the bundle for readers who find the neat, well-behaved literary heroine quietly suffocating.

A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be — Marieke Bigg

Jacky 'The Beetle' McKenzie is, if you ask her, the most sensible and rational person in the world. Unfortunately, her ordinary and the rest of the world's ordinary don't mix. To the rest of the world, she is belligerent, weird, obsessive, angry and volatile. Part visionary architect, part whirlwind of furious artistic chaos, this is a case study on what happens when obstinate obsession comes up against an unyielding society. Kafka-inflected, darkly funny, and completely singular.

Blood Red — Gabriela Ponce

In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, an obsessive cataloguing of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely. Translated from Spanish by Sarah Booker. 

Edendale — Jacquelyn Stolos

In northeast Los Angeles, wildfires rage and coyotes stalk the neighbourhood streets. The wind blows heavy with smoke and, inside a rented bungalow on hilly Lemoyne Street, the air grows heavy with something else. A debut described as feminist-horror and eco-horror, but also a work of neoliberal horror, especially interested in the protracted state of childhood that young people are forced into today. Strange, funny, frightening.

The Lost Art of Sinking — Naomi Booth

Some call it the Fainting Game, others Indian Headrush. Esther is obsessed with experimenting with different ways to pass out: from snorting Daz powder at school to attempted auto-asphyxiation in a serviced apartment in north London. A dark comedy about losing yourself — sensual, funny and exquisitely written. Winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Novella.

Four books. Save 11.96.

Buy separately and you'd pay £41.96. The bundle brings them together at £30.