And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges

Amber Sparks

Feb 2020 · Highbridge Audio · Narrated by Chelsea Stephens and Wayne Mitchell

About this audiobook

Feminism fuels fantasy in this genre-busting collection by "master of the fantastic" (Roxane Gay) Amber Sparks. Exciting fans of such writers as Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Carmen Maria Machado with prose that shimmers and stings, Amber Sparks holds a singular role in the canon of the weird. Now, she reaches new, uncanny heights with And I Do Not Forgive You. In "Mildly Happy, With Moments of Joy," a friend is ghosted by a simple text message; in "Everyone's a Winner at Meadow Park," a teen precariously coming of age in a trailer park befriends an actual ghost. At once humorous and unapologetically fierce, these stories shine an interrogating light on the adage that "history likes to lie about women"-as the subjects of "A Short and Speculative History of Lavoisier's Wife" and "You Won't Believe What Really Happened to the Sabine Women" (it's true, you won't) will attest. Blending fairy tales and myths with apocalyptic technologies, all tethered intricately by shades of rage, And I Do Not Forgive You offers a mosaic of an all-too-real world that fails to listen to its silenced goddesses.

About the author

Amber Sparks is the author of the collection May We Shed These Human Bodies, and her fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, the Collagist, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC.

Chelsea Stephens has a longtime love and appreciation for the performing arts, with experience in on-stage acting, singing, and voice-over. Her love for reading books and the pursuit of the story led her to narration. She enjoys unfolding characters and bringing listeners into new worlds.

Wayne Mitchell is a Northern California-raised actor who has called Southern California home for twenty years. After graduating from San Francisco State University, he made the trek to Los Angeles, where he studied the Meisner Technique. He has appeared in multiple television shows and films.