false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171122062m/87992.jpg 87992 10 A collection of five stories, "Lucky Girls" is set in India and southern Asia. The characters - rootless, often enroute to someplace else - find themselves variously attracted to or repelled by unfamiliar landscapes where every object seems strange and every emotion is heightened. Living according to alien rules, these characters are also vulnerable in unexpected ways: in the title story, a young woman who has been involved in an affair with an Indian man feels bound to both her memories and her adopted country after his death; the protagonist of 'Outside the Eastern Gate' returns to her childhood home in Delhi to find a house still inhabited by the impulsive, desperate spirit of her mother. 'Together, these stories form a whole of heartbreaking eloquence, yet each different strand has the resonance of a far longer work ...These surprising, generous stories signal the arrival of a born writer' - "Observer". 1254265 2003 Lucky Girls total:397|5:47|4:138|3:147|2:57|1:8| 397 1350 544 61 1 3 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu May 01 15:16:28 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 15:20:19 -0700 2008
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Lucky Girls by Nell Freudenberger generated a lot of attention when it first came out and not necessarily for its merits (see all the hating reivews on Amazon). It seems that Freudenberger was an intern at The New Yorker, which chose to run one of her stories and it also turns out ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 04 09:00:06 -0700 2007 Sat May 05 09:28:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 24 12:26:37 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 12:28:30 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 10:15:22 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 10:16:17 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 19:30:02 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 08:24:19 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Aug 12 21:48:51 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 21:52:14 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 16:42:45 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 18:20:53 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 09:31:58 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 09:32:59 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 10:57:53 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 11:02:19 -0700 2007
A collection of short stories, Freudenberg takes either hybrid identities or expat Americans in southeast Asia as her subject matter, illustrating the circumstances of five girls/women.

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