My new favorite work by Jemma Topaz. This was fun, it was overflowing with heart and it had me sitting and saying "wow" to myself more than a few times. I think a lot of people sleep on short story collections, but they absolutely should not with Lo, Nuns!
I honestly struggle to point to a part of this collection and use words like "favorite", I loved every single one of these stories enough that they all compete. Each and every nun had me hooting and hollering, and hilariously the only nun I was like "meh" about had a fucking redemption arc.
Being a book that, by my read, is fundamentally about the perseverance and community-building of women oppressed by men, it delves into some pretty dark shit. It doesn't pull its punches, but the overall thrust trends toward the uplifting. When the cards are on the table, the sisterhood comes thru.