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The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa

Stories

Stories

By Elizabeth Stuckey-French

By Elizabeth Stuckey-French

By Elizabeth Stuckey-French

By Elizabeth Stuckey-French

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Category: Fiction

Category: Fiction

Paperback $12.00

Jun 19, 2001 | ISBN 9780385498968

Ebook $6.99

Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307428615

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    About The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa

    With the stories in her first collection, Elizabeth Stuckey-French establishes herself as a smart new voice in American fiction and stakes her claim to a territory somewhere on the edge of stability, where normal is not just boring but nearly impossible, and where standing out in a crowd may just cause isolation.

    Her characters, mostly Midwesterners, are bizarre but endearing. A reform school graduate is placed in the care of her psychic aunt and in the servitude of a lucrative dog retrieval scheme. A mother who has accepted her son’s modest employment selling blue jeans bemoans the above-board lifestyle she discovers him leading as a wanted criminal. A rehab counselor lives vicariously through her already pregnant stepdaughter’s love affair with a drunk who spends his days in recovery and his nights in the bar.

    Full of wry wit, tender sympathy, and heartland attitude, The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa is as strange, funny, and poignant as the real world it resembles.

    About The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa

    With the stories in her first collection, Elizabeth Stuckey-French establishes herself as a smart new voice in American fiction and stakes her claim to a territory somewhere on the edge of stability, where normal is not just boring but nearly impossible, and where standing out in a crowd may just cause isolation.

    Her characters, mostly Midwesterners, are bizarre but endearing. A reform school graduate is placed in the care of her psychic aunt and in the servitude of a lucrative dog retrieval scheme. A mother who has accepted her son’s modest employment selling blue jeans bemoans the above-board lifestyle she discovers him leading as a wanted criminal. A rehab counselor lives vicariously through her already pregnant stepdaughter’s love affair with a drunk who spends his days in recovery and his nights in the bar.

    Full of wry wit, tender sympathy, and heartland attitude, The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa is as strange, funny, and poignant as the real world it resembles.

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    About Elizabeth Stuckey-French

    Elizabeth Stuckey-French is the author of the novel Mermaids on the Moon and the story collection The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa. Her short fiction has also appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Gettysburg Review, Southern Review, Five Points,… More about Elizabeth Stuckey-French

    About Elizabeth Stuckey-French

    Elizabeth Stuckey-French is the author of the novel Mermaids on the Moon and the story collection The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa. Her short fiction has also appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Gettysburg Review, Southern Review, Five Points,… More about Elizabeth Stuckey-French

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction

    Paperback | $12.00
    Published by Anchor
    Jun 19, 2001 | 224 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385498968

    Category: Fiction

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Anchor
    Dec 18, 2007 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9780307428615

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    “A wonderfully original voice.”–Chicago Tribune

    “Remarkable for its range, humor, and quirkiness.”–USA Today

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