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Throw Like A Girl

Stories

By: Jean Thompson

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Paperback | 5 June 2007 | Edition Number 1

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A New York Times Notable Book | San Francisco Chronical Best Book of the Year

A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary fiction" (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl.

Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson''s indelible characters—lovers, wives, friends, and mothers—speaks her piece—wry, angry, hopeful—about the world and women''s places in it.

This collection includes the following short stories:
“The Brat”
“The Five Senses”
“It Would Not Make Me Tremble to See Ten Thousand Fall”
“The Family Barcus”
“Lost”
“The Inside Passage”
“Holy Week”
“A Normal Life”
“Hunger”
“The Woman Taken in Adultery”
“Pie of the Month”
“Throw Like a Girl”

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"If there are 'Jean Thompson characters,' they're us, and never have we been so articulate and worthy of compassion. These stories concrm that no one is beneath her interest, or beyond her sure and seemingly limitless reach." -- David Sedaris

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Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short Stories Short Stories Modern & Contemporary Fiction Contemporary Women's Fiction

The Brat	p. 1
The Five Senses	p. 21
It Would Not Make Me Tremble to See Ten Thousand Fall	p. 46
The Family Barcus	p. 71
Lost	p. 97
The Inside Passage	p. 116
Holy Week	p. 135
A Normal Life	p. 161
Hunger	p. 194
The Woman Taken in Adultery	p. 219
Pie of the Month	p. 243
Throw Like a Girl	p. 266
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