The Camera zooms in again as the lens are now in the pickle color green. The Cat in the Hat's glasses are already in a "Pickle Color" but, as the video begins you will see that the Cat's glasses lens are red then then the camera zooms into the cat as his lens are now blue. In the book the text "Red, Blue, and Pickle Color" are not used.
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Through a series of 18 strikingly raw vignettes, Loli's identity flows like the Congolese river she is named after. Catherine Hernandez, author of ScarboroughĪ sense of assuredness permeates Mutonji's writing in Shut Up You're Pretty. Dulled by the residue of trauma and sharpened by the expectations of the streets, Tea's characters are painfully and beautifully rendered in these gritty, must-read stories. This book asks us to witness the journey of a girl into womanhood, holding in her arms the fragile understandings of femininity as a commodity, femininity as a caretaker, femininity as a storyteller. Daniel Scott Tysdal, author of Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous MethodĮach story is a separate, richly-described glimpse into an aspect of the protagonist's life, and together they form a whole picture of a young woman who is struggling to understand herself and her world. Probing the mundane, the traumatic, and all the struggles in between with authenticity, intelligence, and art, Shut Up You're Pretty is a stunning debut. Her lyric, dramatically charged fragments are linked by rich and vital prose, captivating and urgent storytelling, and an eye for the strange and striking detail. Tea Mutonji's timely, original, and absorbing stories compose a shattered and shattering bildungsroman. 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. Shut Up You're Pretty is the first book to be published under the imprint VS.
Tinged with pathos and humour, they interrogate the moments in which femininity, womanness, and identity are not only questioned but also imposed. These punchy, sharply observed stories blur the lines between longing and choosing, exploring the narrator's experience as an involuntary one. In 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. Winner, Trillium Book Award and Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
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