The Gift of an Imaginary Girl: Coco and other Stories, by Kristy Webster
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The Gift of an Imaginary Girl: Coco and other Stories, by Kristy Webster
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In this collection of magical realism tales, award-winning author and artist Kristy Webster offers hope and inspiration to those who never really imagined they fit in. Coco is the name a young girl assigns to her deformity, a third arm with which she is born. Coco is able to transform despair into joy, and impact an entire village, effusing everyone with hope and inspiration, until Coco's own transformation takes place.
Other stories are equally fantastical, and are illustrated by the artist.
The Gift of an Imaginary Girl: Coco and other Stories, by Kristy Webster- Amazon Sales Rank: #2787809 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .46" w x 5.98" l, .69 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 170 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. my favorite triptych in a long while By Tiffany "I Once Knew"... my favorite triptych in a long while.This is a woman in touch with the rio debajo el rio and the llorona and the pme and qme of herself. This is a cantadora, a griotte, and she is my sister in ways that remind me of why I got my degree in Transformative Language Arts. She is a truth-teller using the magic around us, and her amazing talent as a story spinner. I see her soul on display when I read her tales, and I see every woman unafraid to be wild. This book, and every other work I've read by Kristy Webster horrifies me, because she makes me look at myself in all my artistic nakedness (the work I have done, and have yet to do). I hate her, and I love her, as I hate and love all who carry the burden of telling, including myself. Kristy MAKES me look at my heart and my crotch, and my tears, and my power. Damn her and praise her – she makes me look.Coco is an amazing tale, and so magical it'll knock you over, but so sweet you'll dive into it, as you will all of her other short stories. Despite all of the awesome vignettes, art pieces, short and long tales, and hilarious phrases, I think "The Conscience of Spiders" is the most beautiful realization of Transformative Language Arts I've seen. It inspires me to do the work of story, of body, of myth and archetype. On par with Clarissa Pinkola Estés (and oh how I'd LOVE to sit down to tea with these two), Webster's powerful wielding of words will leave you spellbound, and begs the question - where has this awesome mind been, and how can we read more of what she is writing?!She makes me work harder to be a more honest wordsmith.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Exquisite, Piercing Prose By Julie Johnson "The Doctor who fixed Maria's madness was nearly impossible to look at. Not because she was ugly, but because she was so severely handsome. Her face and body were arranged in sharp angles that sliced the air as she moved through space. When the Doctor sat in her armchair, Maria wondered if the cushions cried out when the daggers of her elbows sunk into them." From "Graduation"Story after story crafted in this exquisite, piercing prose. Kristy Webster invites us into a world that shifts in the shadows just beyond our own. This collection of short stories and flashing moments reveals an inner life that in our rush to achieve, earn, interject, assert, we pass by. Stop and listen to the scariest things, the most painful things, the most beautiful and haunting. Kristy has. She stopped and listened to hear the stories behind the noise and then gave us the gift of her own particular magic."At age fifty, after three decades of rejection, Eldon marries an onion." From "The Harvest"Allegory is a delicate thing and in Kristy's hands it becomes a web made of shimmering strands, woven with an imagination fixed on the terrible beauty of the world.These are stories of the lost and forgotten, the vulnerable and compromised. Stories of falling for the wrong person or perhaps the right one at the wrong time, of mothers who love like lionesses, of lovers who love until the sky cracks open, of the wounded who keep secrets and learn to survive."A woman was in the habit of taking on lovers and not repeating herself. At night, upon their arrival she would open the door to her home without a word, turn and walk away, letting her silky cape fall to the floor, leaving a trail for the man in the doorway. In the dark, her body was collection of moons. In the morning she would offer coffee, and leave all conversation to her paramour, while keeping herself in little books, secretly stacked inside her ribs." From "Birth"In "Coco", the novella which closes the book, a little girl with a third arm leads us into an embrace of compassion. It is a story full of love and joy, that speaks of all the ways celebrating our weirdness liberates us from the burden of self-doubt. It shows the high cost of envy and the rewards of community, the perfection of children, the grace of hope.Magical realism is storytelling's gift, for it takes us out of our present world and shows us the possibilities alive in our imaginations. It touches the most vulnerable parts, brings them to life, and allows them to dance. Kristy's gift is giving voice to the inexplicable, putting words to the things we feel but cannot account for.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Prepare yourself to fall in love By thorn Kristy Webster lets you into her heart and psyche like it's no big deal...and yet, we feel ourselves shamed that we cannot live with authenticity with which she writes with such apparent ease. Too often the stories that emanate from the disenfranchised, tortured souls are stories of victims and their survival, and we are to be stunned by their accomplishment. Kristy, however, is other worldly. She writes with such sweet simplicity, and such staggering imagery, that we are left with a vague awareness that there is so much that goes on in our own lives that we are too numb, or too blind to see. You cannot read Kristy without loving her. She is the reason that men love women: vulnerable, real, and with a spirit so deep it can never be plumbed.
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