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Stop That Girl: Fiction

by Elizabeth Mckenzie

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

From the start of Elizabeth McKenzie’s beguiling fiction debut, we are drawn into the offbeat worldview of sharp-eyed, intrepid Ann Ransom. Stop That Girl chronicles Ann’s colorful coming-of-age travails, from her childhood in a disjointed family through her tender adolescence and beyond. Along the way, she discovers the absurdities that lurk around every corner of a young woman’s life, by way of oafish neighbors, overzealous boyfriends, prurient vegetable salesmen, sour landlords, and an iconoclast grandmother, known even to her family as Dr. Frost. Keenly funny and highly original, Stop That Girl is a brilliant examination of the exigencies of love and the fragile fabric of family, and heralds the emergence of a remarkable new voice in fiction.

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“Hilarious.”

Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered

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“Single-handedly reinvigorate[s] the coming-of-age genre.”

San Francisco Chronicle

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“An original.”

The New York Times Book Review

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“A smart, swift-paced debut . . . Ann embraces life with a wary insight that couldn’t be more engaging.”

O: The Oprah Magazine

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“Candid, perceptive . . . [McKenzie’s] tales flail with reckless energy. . . . Appealingly idiosyncratic, sharpened throughout by a keen sense of humor.”

The Village Voice

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About the Author

Elizabeth McKenzie's writing has appeared in The New York Times, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Pushcart Prize XXV, Other Voices, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, and ZYZZYVA . Her stories have been performed at Symphony Space in New York and Stories on Stage in Chicago, and recorded for NPR's "Selected Shorts." A former staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly, she lives in Santa Cruz, California.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780812972283
Subtitle:
Fiction
Author:
Mckenzie, Elizabeth
Author:
McKenzie, Elizabeth
Publisher:
Random House Trade
Subject:
General
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
Children of divorced parents
Subject:
Mothers and daughters
Publication Date:
April 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
221
Dimensions:
8.02x5.24x.53 in. .38 lbs.
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