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 charactersâlovers, wives, friends, and mothersâspeaks her pieceâwry, angry, hopefulâabout the world and women's places in it.
This collection includes the following short stories:
âThe Bratâ
âThe Five Sensesâ
âIt Would Not Make Me Tremble to See Ten Thousand Fallâ
âThe Family Barcusâ
âLostâ
âThe Inside Passageâ
âHoly Weekâ
âA Normal Lifeâ
âHungerâ
âThe Woman Taken in Adulteryâ
âPie of the Monthâ
âThrow Like a Girlâ