Téa Mutonji is a contender for Canada Reads 2024
Téa Mutonji is a contender for Canada Reads 2024, for her short fiction collection SHUT UP YOU’RE PRETTY (VS. Books, an imprint of Arsenal Pulp Press), following a young woman living in Scarborough, “as she watches someone decide to shave her head in an abortion clinic waiting room, bonds with her mother over fish and contemplates her Congolese traditions at a wedding.”
SHUT UP YOU’RE PRETTY is championed by Kudakwashe Rutendo, “an actor to watch who fell in love with the stage by performing live poetry. Since then she's starred in feature films Giving Hope: The Ni'cola Mitchell Story and...Backspot, a queer cheer drama directed by D.W. Waterson and produced by Elliot Page and Page Boy Productions.”
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