Nice Girls and Other Stories

by Cezarija Abartis

New Rivers Press

Winner of the Minnesota Voices Award for fiction

Growing up in the Fifties and Sixties: a parochial-school girl suffers from the flu and a first crush; high-schoolers get their first jobs and confront grown-up problems.

Living through the Seventies and Eighties: grad students fall in and out of love; the daughter of immigrants navigates the divide between her parents' Old World and America; young women get hooked on the wrong guy, or mourn the death of the right one, or face unplanned pregnancy.

"Covering the territory between memoir and fiction, these deft and accurate stories have a rare honesty." --Ursula Le Guin

"An exhilarating debut." --Margot  Livesey

Read a review by Sima Rabinowitz on New Pages

Cover: Detail of "Flight," by Andree Tracey

Trade paper
$14.95
ISBN 0-89823-215-5
 

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