Some of Them Will Carry Me

A fiercely original debut collection that centers Black women in moments of imminent change.

Giada Scodellaro's debut is a fiercely original collection of stories ranging in length, style, and tone--a collage of social commentary, surrealism, recipes, folklore, art--that centers Black women in moments of imminent change. This is writing grounded in observation, bordering on the voyeuristic and saturated with detail: a child's legs bent upon the small bosom of their mother, three-piece suits floating in a river, a man holding a rotting banana during sex, wet cardboard, a woman walking naked through a tunnel. In language that is lyrical, minimal, and often absurd, the diverse stories in Some of Them Will Carry Me together deconstruct intimacy while building a surprising, unnerving new reality of language, culture, consumption, and loss.