HIGH STRUNG
by Quinn Dalton
U.S. Publisher: Atria (July 2003)
BULLET-PROOF GIRL
by Quinn Dalton
U.S. Publisher: Atria (July 2004)
HIGH STRUNG
After living on the edge in London for the past six years, young Merle Clawfelter has
had enough of her life as an x-rated book editor with an upperclass boyfriend into
kinky sex and hard drugs. She has come home to make peace with her soon-to-be re-wed
father, her outrageous grandmother and sweet but nutty brother.
As the story unfolds, Merle discovers the real story behind her mother’s fatal car accident
and the unnamed male passenger who died with her. She will face and finally be able to
deal with the past and come to understand the responsibilities of growing up and loving her
family and even herself.
BULLET-PROOF GIRL
Powered by a rich mix of women's voices, the twelve stories in BULLET-PROOF GIRL show the many
ways in which women are both tough and vulnerable, funny and bitter. While the characters vary
in age and circumstance, each strives for something different in her life.
"Dinner at Josette's," a short, biting story about a woman whose friend is in love with a gay
man, deals with the nature of friendship between women, its competitive and nurturing elements.
In "How to Clean your Apartment," the narrator humorously compares getting over a man with
getting rid of old and unusable stuff. The fifty-five-year-old black woman in "Lennie Remembers
the Angels," confronts memories of a lifetime of disappointment following a childhood visitation
from angels as she recovers from a car accident. "Midnight Bowling," a seventeen-year-old
narrator decides to leave behind her fanatically religious mother, her sweet but unambitious
boyfriend and her memories of bowling with her late father as she grabs at the chance to attend
college.
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