Sapph-Lit | Sympathy for Wild Girls: Stories

Sympathy for Wild Girls: Stories

Author: Demree McGhee

Description: A debut collection of surreal, skin-piercing stories about the boundless longing of queer Black women.

A runaway seeks shelter from violence with a pack of wild coyotes. A young woman falls into a hypocritical crew of white Christian YouTube influencers. A mother witnesses her daughter’s prophecy about the end of the world come true.

In Sympathy for Wild Girls, young Black women yearn for intimacy and hunt for belonging in a subtly warped version of our world, where social mores loom like shadows and bigotry shape-shifts.

Skirting the chasms that lurk in our common notions of “girlhood”—and their heightened peril for queer women of color—Demree McGhee’s characters track the prints of their desire and pain to the edges of reality, finding refuge in unlikely places.

Fighting self-loathing and societal abuse, they explore the bounds of their feral strength and ugliest truths, howling at the moon to be known.

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Nina
• Dec 19 2025

All the books grotto & Sapph-Lit gave away at last week's annual Holiday Book Fair 📚☃️🎄

thank you to everyone who came to scoop up some queer literature and celebrate with us, to our fabulous and supportive publishers & @threads, to @kimnarby for her sneak peek reading of Saturn Returning, and to @thestandardhighline for hosting us! We hope you’re all REALLY 👀 enjoying the goodies we stuffed into your totes from our friends at @dameproducts @getmaude @flybyjing @cheerielane 🫶🏽 these book parties really fill our cup and we already can’t wait for the next! Follow us to stay tuned! ✨🌈