Unsettling and perceptive, these short stories challenge American girlhood in all its delusions, conflicting messages, and treacherous terrain. Wide- and wise-eyed, mysterious girls leave their realities behind for strange and slightly unreal places at the edges of the country. Alternatively they hover over their Midwestern homes in interior worlds of their own creation. The stories in Elegies for Uncanny Girls stand at a boundary where both the girls’ bodies and their tales are either their own or laid claim to by the culture and characters that surround them. A young woman whose body continually shrinks and expands moves to Los Angeles to make a movie about tragic merpeople; bewildered and seeking guidance, a new mom strikes up a conversation with a woman with detachable hands; and spurred on by a new ally who might just be a figment of her imagination, a girl decides she can choose her own friends.

Elegies for Uncanny Girls (Break Away Books)

Literature & Fiction

Unferth, Deb Olin

Thon, Melanie Rae

Colville, Jennifer

United States

Break Away Book Club Edition

Ranging from rural Idaho to suburban Arizona and downtown Boston, eleven stories offer an insightful, poignant study of American dreams, illusions, revelations, and relationships

Girls in the Grass

Random House]

Lizzie Macon--whose sister, pregnant by an Indian, has been banished from the family--represses her sexuality and becomes involved in charismatic religions in this exploration of religious and racial prejudice in a Montana mill town

Meteors in August: A Novel

Literary

The author of Girls in the Grass presents another collection of her short stories, including the tale of a privileged Florida girl who reveals that the secret dangers of her life include alligators and a crippled grandfather.

First, Body: Stories

Houghton/Mifflin

A troubled child of rape, Flint grows up with a taste for violence at a young age and embarks on a crime-filled journey to the Crow Indian Reservation with the one person he loves and trusts, his little sister Cecile.

Sweet Hearts

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

For Jay and Willie, town-dwelling sons of the local dentist and policeman respectively, adulthood starts for all of them the year that Matt Fry came back from prison. Life would never be the same again.

Iona Moon: A Novel

Plume

Novel depicting a small-town American community during one strange summer.

Faber&Faber

Girls in the Grass: Stories

Meteors in August (Signed First Edition)

VIKING

Perceived as provincial and uncivilized by the people of White Falls, Idaho, Iona Moon discovers that the two boys she allowed to have sex with her inhabit a world as cruel and unforgiving as her own

Iona Moon

Simon&Schuster

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Elegies for Uncanny Girls (Break Away Books)

Girls in the Grass

Meteors in August: A Novel

First, Body: Stories

Sweet Hearts

Iona Moon: A Novel

Meteors in August: A Novel

Girls in the Grass: Stories

Meteors in August (Signed First Edition)

Iona Moon