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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eWinner of the 2010 Leapfrog Fiction Contest.\u003c/B\u003e\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Excellent and lively. A sharp wit, the apt metaphor, the turn of phrase that pleases and surprises.\"\u0026#8212;Marge Piercy, contest judge\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Bright, brassy, spunky, intelligent. Ingenious writing. . . . Quirky and filled with metaphoric twists that often startle.\"\u0026#8212;Michael Mirolla, contest judge\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Smart, funny, biting, and, above all, touching. A collection to savor over and over.\"\u0026#8212;Michael White, author of \u003cI\u003eBeautiful Assassin\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for Joan Connor's previous collections:\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Brilliantly quirky wit and wordplay.\"\u0026#8212;Syndey Lea, author of \u003cI\u003eA Little Wilderness\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A deeply talented writer.\"\u0026#8212;Alyce Miller, author of \u003cI\u003eWater\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Candor, bracing wit, and skewering insight that could kill if she let it.\"\u0026#8212;Rosellen Brown, author of \u003cI\u003eHalf a Heart\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoan Connor's collection investigates love and loss, sex, family, and the ways they echo back through memory, sometimes to comfort and sometimes to bite. Some comic, some dark, the stories range from lyrical to laugh-out-loud funny. The title story is a mock self-help manual on how to fall out of love. \"Men in Brown\" is a rollicking account of a woman infatuated with her UPS man. \"Aground\" is a dark account of male lust and violence on a lonely island in Maine.\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eJoan Connor \u003c/B\u003eis a professor at Ohio University and at Fairfield University's low residency MFA program. She received the AWP award for her collection \u003cI\u003eHistory Lessons\u003c/I\u003e, and the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize for \u003cI\u003eThe World Before Mirrors\u003c/I\u003e. Her two earlier collections are \u003cI\u003eWe Who Live Apart \u003c/I\u003eand \u003cI\u003eHere on Old Route 7\u003c/I\u003e.\u003c/P\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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