In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles
modern queer life with uncompromising and hilarious lucidity.
Attending to the intimacy of Gen Z women's lives, these stories move
from the provinces to the metropolis, from chaotic student
accommodation to insecure jobs, from parties to dates to the nights
after, from haplessness to some kind of power.
Funny and
devastating, like a trans Mary McCarthy, Zhou depicts with shocking
precision the choices and shifts through which we work on each other
and ourselves. Tender, merciless, and gracious, Girlfriends is
a breath of fresh air
