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Crosswinds #17
Even Pretty Girls Cry at Night
Troubled by her mother's death, a distant father, and cruel classmates, Faye nonetheless finds new hope when she falls in love with Simon.
156 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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About the author
Merrill Joan Gerber
40 books9 followersPrize-winning novelist and short story writer who has published seven novels — among them King Of The World, which won the Pushcart Press Editor's Book Award for an "important and unusual book of literary distinction," and The Kingdom of Brooklyn, winner of the Ribalow Award from Hadassah Magazine for "the best English-language book of fiction on a Jewish theme" — as well as five volumes of short stories, nine young adult novels, and three books of non-fiction.
Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Mademoiselle, Redbook and many other magazines, as well as in literary journals such as The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southwest Review, Shenandoah, The Chattahoochee Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review.
She has published essays in The American Scholar, Commentary, The Sewanee Review, Salmagundi and The Writer.
She earned her M.A. in English from Brandeis University and was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship to Stanford University. She presently teaches fiction writing at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.
Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Mademoiselle, Redbook and many other magazines, as well as in literary journals such as The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southwest Review, Shenandoah, The Chattahoochee Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review.
She has published essays in The American Scholar, Commentary, The Sewanee Review, Salmagundi and The Writer.
She earned her M.A. in English from Brandeis University and was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship to Stanford University. She presently teaches fiction writing at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.
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June 22, 2021
I might be remembering it incorrectly as I had read it to roughly 15 years ago. I read it twice. Would read again, just to refresh.
But this is the first (and only, so far) book I've read that addresses scoliosis. Really interesting and loved the ending as I remember it. Anyone got a digital copy they can share?
But this is the first (and only, so far) book I've read that addresses scoliosis. Really interesting and loved the ending as I remember it. Anyone got a digital copy they can share?
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