Stella is a girl we all know but rarely meet in fiction -- seventeen, smart, attractive, and deeply alienated. In this novel, she narrates her last two weeks of high school in Orange County, California. Here is what it is like to be a smart high scho...
A tale of a college student beset with afflictions, by an author whose “books are shot through with light and dark, with strangeness and humor” (Kelly Link). Meet Elodie Harrington, college student and medical anomaly. From chicken pox to ...
What does it take to graduate from the kid table? That's what Ingrid and her five teenage cousins want to know when the oldest cousin lands a seat at the adult table. Over the course of five family events Ingrid chronicles her generation's attempt to...