Some of Them Will Carry Me

Giada Scodellaro’s debut is a fiercely original collection of stories ranging in length, style, & tone—a collage of social commentary, surrealism, recipes, folklore, art— that centers Black women in moments of imminent change. In language that is lyrical, minimal, & often absurd, the diverse stories in Some of Them Will Carry Me deconstruct intimacy while building a surprising, unnerving new reality of language, culture, consumption, & loss.

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“The female protagonists who appear in Scodellaro’s kinetic début collection of stories find themselves in absurdist & fantastical scenarios that interrogate the nature of subjectivity.” – The New Yorker, “The Best Books of 2022”

“In Some of Them Will Carry Me, Giada Scodellaro enthralls as she evokes the best of the lushly slow & quiet European films of the 1960s, with their long, wide, starkly gorgeous shots, deeply detached yet viscerally sensual plotlines, & lonely meandering figures crossing landscapes. But what is more powerful is how she reorganizes those canonized spaces to foreground the subject-ness of brown bodies & to imbue her female characters with volition. It’s a virtuosic reframing, done with seductive & disarming brevity. A stunning debut.” – Renee Gladman

“This debut collection is not to be missed. Some as short as a paragraph, or even a sentence, Scodellaro’s stories capture a broad spectrum of life’s joy, disgust, complexity, & unusual specificity. . . . Readers encountering this extraordinary book for the first time will rejoice.” – Booklist, starred review

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Giada Scodellaro is a writer & photographer born in Naples, Italy & raised in the Bronx, NY. She holds an MFA from the New School. Some of Them Will Carry Me is her first book.