Prepare Her Reading until the unthinkable causes her

until the unthinkable causes her family's façade to crumble

Inspired by Frida Kahlo’s diary

Lisa Mantchev takes the concept of a magic wish and uses it to explore real world empathy

But he's three thousand miles away

After withholding parts of herself for so long

Prepare Her Reading until the unthinkable causes herA collection of "elegant, original, and moving" stories "with the lyrical brilliance and bite of Sylvia Plath" set in a not so bucolic Vermont, a land of antique stores, small towns, fading farms, and young women trying to figure out marriage, motherhood, sex and their own power (Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Almost Famous Women and Birds of a Lesser Paradise). Prepare Her tells the stories of young women at the brink of discovering their own power.