Published in 2020
192 pages
Corinne Manning is a prose writer and literary organizer. Their stories and essays have been published widely, including in Toward an Ethics of Activism and Shadow Map: An Anthology of Survivors of Sexual Assault. Stories from We Had No Rules have appeared in Story Quarterly, Calyx, Joyland, Vol 1 Brooklyn, The Bellingham Review, The Southern Humanities Review, and Moss. Corinne is a two time MacDowell fellow and has received grants from Artist Trust, 4Culture and the Hub City Writers Project. Corinne founded The James Franco Review, a project that sought to address implicit bias in the publishing industry.
What is this book about?
A defiant, beautifully realized story collection about the messy complications of contemporary queer life.
A young teenager runs from her family’s conservative home to her sister’s NY apartment to learn a very different set of rules. A woman grieves the loss of a sister, a “gay divorce,” and the pain of unacknowledged abuse with the help of a lone wallaby on a farm in Washington State. A professor of women’s and gender studies revels in academic and sexual power but risks losing custody of the family dog.
Corinne Manning’s defiant, beautifully realized story collection about the messy complications of contemporary queer life follow a cast of queer characters as they explore the choice of assimilation over rebellion, feeling the promise of a radically reimagined world but facing complicity instead.
