Girls in the Grass: Stories - Tapa blanda

Winner of a 1997 Whiting Writers'Award One of Granta's "Best Young American Novelists"

Ranging across a uniquely American landscape, from rural Idaho and suburban Arizona to downtown Boston, the eleven stories in this eagerly awaited reissued collection explore with painful lyricism the harsh awakenings of adolescence: eroticism and hypocrisy, love and violence, responsibility and guilt, adult inconstancy and the random cruelty of life and death.

Melanie Rae Thon is also the author of First, Body (Owl Books, 0-8050-5540-1) Iona Moon, and Meteors in August. Her short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Paris Review, Story, and Granta. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, and teaches at the Ohio State University.