Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"[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
Review
"Sometimes tragic, often funny, and always well-crafted, Quinn Dalton's stories don't disappoint." San Antonio Express-News
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
Endurance Tests 1
Back on Earth 16
Dinner at Josette's 32
Midnight Bowling 40
Graceland 74
Package 79
Dough 98
Lennie Remembers the Angels 112
Shed This Life 135
Bulletproof Girl 151
How to Clean Your Apartment 195