White Girls

The Union, Ohio, of the 1950s and ´60s in this piercing novel is a place of suburban comfort and racial bigotry. There, Loretta Dardio, a young girl growing from curiosity into adolescent defiance, risks ostracism and heartbreak as she pursues a romance on the other side of the color line.

"Takes us clearly into the heart of rambunctious sexuality [in a] standard American small town. Across its corners creep the influential shadows of that classic Ohio village, Sherwood Anderson´s Winesburg."
New York Times Book Review

"A fine collection. . . . moving and impossible to regret.". .
The New Yorker

" A winner courageous and absolutely right artistically."
Chicago Tribune