We’ve faded in the sky, and no men remember us. I wrote it for you, and for all the daughters, and for all the mothers of daughters, and for all the mothers of mothers of daughters thank you for carrying the world.”
This brilliant and unadulterated collection, subtitled “Stories and Other Revenges,” is dedicated with the single sentence “This one’s for the ladies” and closed in the acknowledgements with these lines: “And finally, thank you to my daughter, Isadora. This is the era we’re living in, where strong female protagonists are still pretty hard to come by and often stuck in thin, predictable tropes, where financial equality between men and women in nearly every sector remains wildly unbalanced, and where the #MeToo movement that began so many years ago is still patiently waiting to bear all of its righteous fruit.Įnter Amber Sparks and her latest book, And I Do Not Forgive You. Sure, 2019 gave us Greta Gerwig’s powerful Little Women and the heroine Rey dominating galactic folks in the final chapter of the Star Wars saga, but we’ve yet to see pay equalized between genders or the final waves following Harvey Weinstein’s trials for more than eighty counts of rape, criminal sex acts, sex abuse, and sexual misconduct. In our hybrid interview series, we pair an author Q&A with a critical essay about one or more of their books.
Elements Contest 2018: Character | Dialogue Setting.
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