On a hot June night, inspired and desperate, fifty-year-old Cora slips out of her house without clothes, and experiences a freedom she’s never known. Until recently, Cora was the anonymous hands, outstretched arms, and running feet in a stock photo catalog. But when she’s unceremoniously fired, Cora feels lost and invisible, an aging woman in a world that prizes young, sheathed and stilleto’d bodies. She communes with her hero, David Bowie, until the moment of release in the dark night.

After her naked forays, Cora is joined by Evelyn, a seventy-year-old neighbor with a fiery nudist past, and Avery, a thirty-year-old nurse disgusted by her body and shamed by her family. Together, they create Nude Girls Live, a manifesto and a movement. With growing devotees, massive media attention and protests, and legal firestorms, the group plans a festival and performance event, and the women power towards a very public reckoning.

With aged rage, surreal trappings, and an ancestry of Andrea Lawlor, Mona Awad and Margaret Atwood, Not a Stitch to Wear dissects the inanity of women’s clothing and wonders what happens when we’ve had enough.

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When Shannon and her queer chosen family turned seventy, they created a communal home, a place for them to live out their days together. But as years pass, and death takes her friends, Shannon becomes the last.

Until one day, when her dead friends return. And Shannon discovers how powerful she has become.

Over the course of one week, Shannon transforms her body into beasts, sees into the lives she might have lived, watches time spool and unspool, and visits a land of myth and legend to meet the original woman. And as the week nears its end, Shannon must grapple with her own life and death, and what comes next.

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In this multilayered, provocative, and outrageously imaginative literary debut, Amy Lee Lillard gives us ten deeply absorbing stories about the women who won’t smile: angry, aching women reacting to the dismissal of their most secret or beloved needs and desires, women returning to base instincts, primal fears, and mythic power. Across past, present, and future, around the midwest and the world, these women demand we witness as they work to break through, to defy, to become. It won’t be pretty, and it won’t be safe, but it will be real.