Moving with her parents to an affluent Connecticut town in the mid-1970s, thirteen-year-old Alison Glass struggles to fit into her new school in spite of her back brace and forges an unlikely friendship with a popular girl who shares Alison's love of horses. By the Pushcart Prize-winning author of The Anxiety of Everyday Objects. Reprint.

A single, young working girl living in the big city, Winona Bartlett struggles to juggle her safe job as a secretary at a New York City law firm with her aspirations of becoming a filmmaker and her disastrous love life, a situation that is complicated by the arrival of a new woman lawyer who challenges her to trust her own creative ideas. A first novel. Original. 75,000 first printing.

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