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“Sears reframes the narrative of what the world often asks women to themselves. Her five characters self-sacrifice; anorexia is their science and their philosophy. The story’s language is lean and precise, and the background — a library, school girl days — is deceptively benign. The obsession and, in its most disturbing form, the passion that these five girls channel into their disorder is not speculative or farfetched. After months of work, one girl, Susan, begins to ask questions, saying, 'Didn’t they know their goal was impossible?' In this potent capsule of fiction, Sears gives us a realistic picture of what happens when an obsession cannot be the compulsion becomes a mania.” - Lucie Shelly
About the Jennifer Sears writes fiction and creative non-fiction. Her work has been published in many literary journals including Guernica, Ninth Letter, Fence, and the Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing, the anthology Lost and Stories of New York (2009), and The Boston Globe where she was a correspondent. She has received awards from the Millay Colony for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Money For Women Fund, George Washington University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
About the Electric Literature is an independent publisher amplifying the power of storytelling through digital innovation. Electric Literature’s weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction. Recommended Reading is supported by the Amazon Literary Partnership, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. For other links from Electric Literature, follow us, or sign up for our eNewsletter.
About the Jennifer Sears writes fiction and creative non-fiction. Her work has been published in many literary journals including Guernica, Ninth Letter, Fence, and the Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing, the anthology Lost and Stories of New York (2009), and The Boston Globe where she was a correspondent. She has received awards from the Millay Colony for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Money For Women Fund, George Washington University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
About the Electric Literature is an independent publisher amplifying the power of storytelling through digital innovation. Electric Literature’s weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction. Recommended Reading is supported by the Amazon Literary Partnership, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. For other links from Electric Literature, follow us, or sign up for our eNewsletter.
17 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 13, 2017
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Jennifer Sears
2 books3 followersJennifer Sears is the author of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award judged by the novelist Margot Livesey. The book will be published by the University of Iowa Press in November 2025.
She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation of the Arts, and the 2024 NeMLA Fiction Book Award for a novel manuscript. Her stories and essays have been cited in Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. She writes a newsletter about reading, writing, and teaching writing: Si Omnia Ficta…if all is fiction.
She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation of the Arts, and the 2024 NeMLA Fiction Book Award for a novel manuscript. Her stories and essays have been cited in Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. She writes a newsletter about reading, writing, and teaching writing: Si Omnia Ficta…if all is fiction.
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