Female Trouble: Stories

Female Trouble features thirteen wise, funny, and startlingly perceptive stories about the vagaries and revelations of womanhood. Named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers of her generation, Antonya Nelson explores the broad notion of family from myriad angles in Female Trouble. Set in the vividly rendered Midwest, these moving stories are dark and honest portraits of people in moral quandaries, gray areas, unclear circumstances -- from the three-timing thirty-year-old man of the title story to the divorced mother of a turbulent teen in Incognito to the sexually adventurous daughter of an adulterous mother in Stitches. With Female Trouble, Nelson has created a cast of memorable characters who reveal us to ourselves with disturbing clarity and conscience

Author: Antonya Nelson
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 4.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780743218726

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/06/2003 pg. 28

About the Author
Nelson, Antonya: - Antonya Nelson teaches creative writing at the University of Houston, and is the award-winning author of three novels and four short story collections. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Best American Short Stories. She divides her time among Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico.