Wayward Girls and Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories-Fast Shipping

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In Elizabeth Jolley’s “The Last Crop,” a seemingly guileless woman cons a man out of his Leonora Carrinton’s “The Debutante,” a young girl sends a hyena to her coming-out ball, with disastrous title character in Frances Towers’s “Violet” uses her talent for witchcraft with wicked Kincaid’s “Girl” faces a litany of her mother’s strictures and admonishments, and Suniti Namjoshi’s bittersweet fables suggest that nothing a woman does will ever be really whether these women are bad or good, evil or benign, guilty or innocent, calculating or naive, they are not of them suffers passively at the hands of manages to confront her circumstances and sometimes, though not always, triumph over them.