Synopses & Reviews
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"The fierce women in the gorgeously ragged stories of Bonnie Jo Campbell's ,
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"Bonnie Jo Campbell is the real deal--a writer whose plainspoken characters I believe from the first word, even as I sometimes want to shout 'Oh God, No!' or even 'Why, Why, Why?!' I know why. I know these women. They are my cousins, nieces, neighbors. Some of them are me. What I don't know is how with such hard stories she invariably leaves me feeling strengthened. There is magic here. Read the stories and see for yourself." Dorothy Allison
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"Bonnie Jo Campbell has some secret hocus-pocus going on here that births us for real real real humanity, yearning, leaping, chuckling, cussing, and embracing, while looking you and me right in the eye." Carolyn Chute
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"Bonnie Jo Campbell is a master of capturing a roiling central mystery of life: the way love and hate, sadness and hilarity, power and weakness are so often inextricably, tempestuously fused. is an exhilarating book by one of our finest writers." Robert Olen Butler
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"American fiction waited a long time for Bonnie Jo Campbell to come along" Jaimy Gordon, National Book Award-winning author of Lord of Misrule
Synopsis
From the author of National Book Award finalist comes a dazzling and suspenseful new story collection.
About the Author
Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of three previous books of fiction including American Salvage, a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.