BooksHistory Lesson for Girls
This novel chronicles the friendship of two thirteen-year-old girls in Weston, Connecticut in the 1970s. Negotiating uneasy terrain—including New Age shamanism, scoliosis, and faith healing—Alison and Kate plunge into their imaginative lives and the balm of horse riding, even as their families interact in increasingly dangerous ways. It soon becomes clear that both girls may not survive the weight of personal history, despite the magic and strength of their friendship and the stories they create together. (Viking, July 2006) The Anxiety of Everyday Objects
Winona Bartlett, a secretary at a New York City law firm, longs to be more than a “non-filmmaking filmmaker,” but instead she keeps saying yes to other people--her boss, who has persnickety ideas about coffee; her boyfriends, whom she doesn’t quite love after all; and her sister, who keeps asking for favors. Then Sandy Spires, a formidable, beautiful, and blind lawyer comes to work at the firm and challenges Winona to take a stand for a change. In love and work, high jinks ensue. (Penguin 2004) Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant: Stories
The characters in Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant are often struggling at the edges of polite society--a prostitute, a fortuneteller, a waitress, a widow--and the stories are likewise told with a playful rebelliousness against traditional structure. In the title story, a woman yearns to be like Jack Kerouac, yet is held back by a litany of rules teaching her to be more of a pansy. In “Look at the Moon,” a semi-Catholic, totally bored receptionist hooks up with a flamboyant stranger and winds up on a life-altering road trip. (Dalkey Archive Press, 1994 and 2001) |
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