~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Trillium Book Award - 2020, and The Publishing Triangle Award for Debut Fiction - 2020
Shut Up You're Pretty: Stories
The first book to be published under the imprint VS. Books (a series of books curated and edited by writer-musician Vivek Shraya featuring work by new and emerging Indigenous or Black writers, or writers of colour), Shut Up You're Pretty is a disarming debut story collection from Tea Mutonji.
These punchy, sharply observed stories blur the lines between longing and choosing, exploring the narrator's experience as an involuntary one. Tinged with pathos and humour, they interrogate the moments in which femininity, woman-ness, and identity are not only questioned but also imposed.