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36 reviews
Lisa Tucker

Down Town Press, 2004

Worth Shouting About
Lisa Tucker is a new voice but one that I will read again and again. For, indeed, she has found her voice and its in writing novels with emotionally charged dysfunctional families who are so well drawn that you might even know them. There is great depth in all of the characters, even the minor ones. The plot is a new and refreshing twist and allows those who may have grown up in a "normal" ...

American Girls About Town: They're Not Just the Girls Next Door...

1 review
jennifer weiner

Down Town Press, 2007

Short story collection featuring American authors
This is a short story collection featuring 17 different American women's fiction authors, the most famous of whom is probably Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes, Good in Bed). Like virtually all short story collections I've ever read, I found the stories to be very hit-or-miss. Weiner's contribution, "The Truth About Nigel," about a woman's burgeoning crush on a mysterious co-worker, was one of the ...