In Bulletproof Girl, Quinn Dalton offers eleven raw and witty stories powered by a rich mix of women's voices.

The stakes are high in these diverse narratives. "Dinner at Josette's" explores the nature of female friendships in the story of a woman whose best friend is in love with a gay man. "Midnight Bowling" follows seventeen-year-old Tess as she escapes her fanatically religious mother's pipe dreams and her dead father's legacy. In "Lennie Remembers the Angels," a woman confronts a long-ago vision as she recovers from a hit-and-run accident. In "Graceland," a once supportive businessman's wife turns to murder. And in "How to Clean Your Apartment," a jilted lover creates a spring cleaning reference guide as she tries to get over her man.

At times tragic and savagely funny, Bulletproof Girl is a dynamic anthology from a strong new voice in fiction.

"[A]n oddly flat first collection that deals mostly with overly familiar domestic issues....Sadly, stories with a potential too insufficiently realized to deliver sustenance." Kirkus Reviews

"Sometimes tragic, often funny, and always well-crafted, Quinn Dalton's stories don't disappoint." San Antonio Express-News

In her debut novel, Quinn Dalton introduced readers to one woman's reckless and hopeful journey to face her family's past and her own uncertain future. In Bulletproof Girl, Dalton offers eleven fiercely honest stories of women poised at crucial moments in their lives when everything changes. Precisely written, funny and tragic, raw and witty, these stories will surprise with their range as well as their depth. Written over a ten-year span — an earlier draft of the collection was a semifinalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 2001 — Bulletproof Girl is a complex, dynamic anthology from a strong new voice in fiction.

Contents

Endurance Tests

Back on Earth

Dinner at Josette's

Midnight Bowling

Graceland

Package

Dough

Lennie Remembers the Angels

Shed This Life

Bulletproof Girl

How to Clean Your Apartment