How to Care for a Human Girl
A Novel
$37.15
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2024
Summary
From “a writer at the top of her game” comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time.
Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh, quietly obtains an abortion without telling her husband, but the secret causes turmoil in her already shaky marria…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982157234 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1982157232 |
| Author: | Ashley Wurzbacher |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 135mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
“I laughed and cried and saw myself—saw every woman I’ve ever known—in the story of the Battle sisters.” –ANNA SOLOMON, author of The Book of V.“A trenchant and bounteous story of two sisters fighting for autonomy and how even in the grips of indecision women must get to decide their own lives.” —Michelle Hart, author of We Do What We Do in the Dark
About The Author
Ashley Wurzbacher
Ashley Wurzbacher is the author of How to Care for a Human Girl and the short story collection Happy Like This, which won the 2019 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, she currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and teaches at the University of Montevallo.
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