Good Women

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In her dynamic debut, Halle Hill’s Good Women delves into the lives of twelve Black women across Appalachia and the Deep South, introducing to literary fiction a must-read voice. A darkly funny and deeply human collection,  Good Women observes how place, blood-ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries—or lack thereof—influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect. Through intimate moments of personal choice, Hill shines a light on how twelve women have been shaped and formed, and how they shape and form themselves through faith and abandon, transgression and conformity, community and solitude. A woman boards a Greyhound bus barreling toward Florida to meet her sugar daddy’s mother, a state fair employee considers revenge on a local preacher, a sister lends support to her brother, who plans to run away with the man he’s seeing in secret, a young woman who works for a scam for-profit college navigates the lies she sells for a living. As these women wrestle with what they need, with what they want, Hill captures the mundane in moments of absurdity, and bears witness to both joy and heartbreak, reminding us that the next moment could be life-changing. Good Women is an essential text in fiction from a vibrant new writer.