Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night: Short Story Collection - Perfect for Book Clubs & Nighttime Reading
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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.
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Out of the Girls' Room is a sharp, lively collection of stories about relationships, growth, turning points, identity, and communities. It's also a clinic on how to tell a story, on point of view. There are first-person stories where you watch the character's story through her own eyes, third-person stories where you watch from a slight remove, and second-person stories where you're drawn into the character's experience as though taking it on yourself. There's even a story where the narrator is not one person but a group of women, a group that can only tell the story from a place of being unified.
