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A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl.
Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson's indelible characters -- lovers, wives, friends, and mothers -- speaks her piece -- wry, angry, hopeful -- about the world and women's places in it.
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2007: Not only does this latest collection of short stories from Jean Thompson have one of the best book titles I've come across in recent years, it's also a resonant and refreshingly unromantic portrait of women in every sort of role--ranging from the unpopular girl at school to a woman stuck in traffic to a modern-day Bonnie Parker. Throw Like a Girl is the kind of rare reading experience that makes you catch your breath with recognition as you meet each of these remarkable women, and Jean Thompson's taut, effervescent prose wakes you up to their most intimate details. --Anne Bartholomew
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