"Varallo has a striking talent for drawing realistic characters, especially young people, and dropping them into situations where resolutions are hard-earned and not always satisfying."
Iowa Short Fiction Award winner Varallo (Out Loud, 2008, etc.) offers a third collection of short literary fiction.
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"Uncomfortable moments of adolescent epiphany marked by oblique dialogue, little sense of place and less humor."
Slim collection of uninspiring coming-of-age stories by the winner of University of Iowa's John Simmons Award for Short Fiction.
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