Nice Girls and Other Stories
by Cezarija Abartis
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.
"An exhilarating debut." --Margot Livesey
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Cover: Detail of "Flight," by Andree Tracey
Trade paper
$14.95
ISBN 0-89823-215-5