Girls in the Grass: Stories

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Random House, 1991 - Fiction - 272 pages
The eleven stories explore with painful lyricism the harsh awakenings of adolescence.

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Punishment
15
The Spanish
33
Copyright

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About the author (1991)

Melanie Rae Thon is an award-winning American author and professor. Her recent works include: Silence and Song, The 7th Man, Voices of the River, and In This Light: New and Selected Stories. She is also the author of the novels, Sweet Hearts, Meteors in August, and Iona Moon, and the story collections First, Body and Girls in the Grass. Thon's work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), and O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). Among the honor's she has received, are: a Whiting Writer's Award (1997), two NEA fellowships (1992 and 2008) A Writer's Residency from the Lannan Foundation (2005) and a fellowship from the Tanner Humanities Center (2009).

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