Winner of The Flannery O'Connor Award, this critically acclaimed debut collection features ten stories set in the plains of the Midwest and the honky-tonks of the South. This is a world where happiness is half heartache, dreams dwindle, and infidelity becomes just another way to extend the family. C...
Debra Monroe
Paperback
176
Touchstone
0671897160
9780671897161
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A collection of short stories by the author of The Source of Trouble includes ""The World's Great Love Novels,"" ""Crossroads Cafe,"" and ""Royal Blues,"" about women seeking love in a land of cold winds and irresponsible men. 12,500 first printing.
Debra Monroe
Hardcover
272
Simon & Schuster
0671897179
9780671897178
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From award-winning writer Debra Monroe comes a funny and poignant story of a woman's quest to find a physical and emotional home. Maddie, a refugee from two marriages, wanders from place to place seeking new options and new connections. She eventually settles in a cozy old neighborhood in Tucson, g...
Debra Monroe
Paperback
304
Touchstone
0684851970
9780684851976
7
Raised in the Delta of Mississippi, Jan Cowan is repeatedly molested by her mother's lesbian lover, Judy Christine Hays, a small-town cop. Immediately after finishing high school, Jan flees Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee. Patterned after her molester, Jan embarks on a career with the Memphis Poli...
Debra Monroe-Lax
Paperback
296
AuthorHouse
1467853739
9781467853736
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"A smart, funny, wry, and winning book."—Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have ShiftedDelia Arco spends her workdays counseling teenagers as outcast as she was and her nights caring for the baby daughter she loves fiercely. Searching furiously for the mother in herself, she struggles to understan...
Debra Monroe
Paperback
220
Engine Books
0983547718
9780983547716
5
In the lavishly acclaimed collection of short stories A Wild, Cold State, Flannery O'Connor Award - winning author Debra Monroe takes us into the lives of women striving for love and emotional fulfillment amidst a forbidding topography of glacial winds and stormY, unpredictable men. Set in rural Wis...
Debra Monroe
Paperback
272
Simon & Schuster
0684815117
9780684815114
4
After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie. Though elated that...
Debra Monroe
Paperback
224
University of Georgia Press
0820349119
9780820349114
2
A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers but never q...
Debra Monroe
Hardcover
224
University of Georgia Press
0820348740
9780820348742
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