All the Anxious Girls on Earth Stories
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All the Anxious Girls on Earth Stories

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Full Title

All the Anxious Girls on Earth Stories
Author(s)

Zsuzsi Gartner
Edition
ISBN

9780307481290, 9780385499118
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Anchor
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PDF and EPUB

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All the Anxious Girls on Earth marks the debut of a startingly original literary voice. Zsuzsi Gartner’s exuberant prose gives voice to unforgettable characters who survive by their wits as they cope with indifferent relationships, lackluster jobs, and the myriad curve-balls life throws their way. A woman calls in fake bomb threats from the nineteenth floor of a bank tower as revenge against her ex-lover. The mother of a girl killed by a teenage urban guerilla thrives spectacularly in her industrious grief, transforming herself into a forgiveness guru and talk-show host. Lured into the wilderness by her desire for a man who rebuilds vintage airplanes, a young woman finds she lusts more for biscotti and city sidewalks. A small, heroic child makes a guileless request for pajamas and creates a psychic storm at the center of her anxious, achievement-mad parents’ lives. Rendered in a jittery, jazzed-up prose that has been compared to that of Lorrie Moore and Mary Flanagan, these stories brilliantly capture the pathos, beauty, and alienation of contemporary life and signal the arrival of a writer to watch.

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