Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night
Document Type
Book
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Description
In Thisbe Nissen's award-winning debut story collection, characters teeter on the verge of love, of life, of oncoming cataclysms after which Things Will Never Be the Same. Against the varied backdrops of Grateful Dead shows, anniversary parties, sickrooms, and bright Manhattan vestibules, Nissen traces the joy, terror, and electric surprise that flash between people as they suddenly connect. A fifteen-year-old girl whose mother is slowly dying finds solace in the bed of her best friend's older brother. A wife remembers the early romance in her marriage as she watches her husband's hand, shaky with Parkinson's, lift a bite of food to his mouth. Longtime friends are jolted by their unforeseen attraction to each other; new lovers feel their way by instinct in vans, on futons, an during risky, late-night conversation. Knowing, often hilarious, and always pitch-perfect, Nissen's tales hang inside those moments when the heart is acting and the head is watching, hopeful that the heart is doing the right thing.
Call number in WMU's library
PS3564.I79 O97 2000
ISBN
978-0385720533
Publication Date
10-17-2000
Publisher
Anchor Books
City
New York
Disciplines
Creative Writing
Citation for published book
Nissen, T. (2000). Out of the girls' room and into the night / Thisbe Nissen. (1st Anchor Books ed.).
Recommended Citation
Nissen, Thisbe, "Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night" (2000). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 531.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/531