Girls From the County, Donna Lynch
Girls From the County, Donna Lynch
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Girls From the County

Author: Donna Lynch

Narrator: Donna Lynch

Unabridged: 1 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/2023


Synopsis

This book is merely a record of dark events, the kind that you can sometimes move on from, yet can’t help but see in every old house, high school, or crumbling bridge.In the county, eerie stillness can be mistaken for stagnation. In the county, rumination on pain and guilt can be confused with omens and curses. In the county, feelings of claustrophobia stem from understanding what the encroaching darkness brings with it.You’ve heard of country girls, and city girls, but what of the forgotten girls from the in-between space of the county? Confronting the things too wild for urban areas, and too methodically malevolent for the countryside, girls from the county are often dismissed by popular narratives, left to solve riddles of grief and rage for themselves.Known for weaving folk horror with confessional poetry, unflinching true crime approaches with myth and fable, contemporary appetites with gothic literature, award-winning author Donna Lynch has composed a lyrical reconstruction for readers to navigate the lives—and deaths—of girls from the county.

Reviews

Goodreads review by destiny ♡ on August 10, 2022

Everything that dies returns and I want that to be as true for murdered girls as it is for frogs and salamanders Donna Lynch absolutely blew me away with her last collection, Choking Back the Devil, so I knew this collection was going to be incredible as well, but I didn't know I could love it this......more

Goodreads review by Bianca Rose (Belladonnabooks) on July 28, 2022

This is the sort of poetry collection that will haunt you long after finishing it. Folk horror tinged poems inspired by the girls of small towns and their experiences. Girls who grow up with no choice but to be survivors. Either be wild or be devoured by the wild. There is a tenderness that comes wi......more

Goodreads review by Erin on July 26, 2023

Dark, unyielding, and horror filled; this poetry collection by dark fiction author, Donna Lynch is unsettling and impossible to stop listening to. Rather than write about city girls and country girls, Lynch focuses on the county girls – the girls from in-between places, with dark back stories, and h......more

Goodreads review by Becca on August 28, 2022

Thank you to Raw Dog Screaming Press for providing me with a review copy of the Girls From the County! To my dark poetry babes, true crime enthusiasts & those who enjoy having their hearts destroyed, I got a recommendation for you! I always tell myself that I'm not huge into poetry & then I read some......more

Goodreads review by Redsteve on October 31, 2024

Collection of short but powerful poems. Very dark, but often haunting (in both the literal and figurative senses). I kept putting down the book after reading each poem and when I finished went back and read the book straight through. Individual poems range from true crime to supernatural horror, wit......more