Throw Like A Girl

by Jean Thompson

Genres: General Fiction

Synopsis

A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" ( 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.

Release date: June 5, 2007

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Print pages: 304