Jillian in the Borderlands

The darkly funny tales in Jillian in the Borderlands feature visionary experiences, ghosts, faith healers, a deer’ s head that speaks, a dog who channels spirits of the dead— and a young woman whose drawings begin to create realities instead of just reflecting them. “ Immediately, in the first tale," reviewer Kathryn Ordiway writes, "the reader is plunged into Jillian’ s world, a hallucinatory one of ghosts and eternal knowledge, but also a familiar one, filled with deportations and racial injustice and men girls are told to stay away from. . . There isn’ t a moment in these stories where you don’ t feel the vein connecting Jillian’ s world to our own.” Chosen by The Rumpus for their list of "What to read when you want to celebrate Women's History.