Publication

1999 - Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

53,000 words, Guess

Page Count

212 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing18142
  • Goodreads1094384

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3569.T335736 S49 1999

Description

"Alta Corral is a distinctive character in contemporary fiction ... a young woman confident, even nonchalant, about her sexual conquests of other women. She works as a body piercer at a full-service tattoo parlor, rides a motorcycle, and has slept with every girl in San Francisco who is so inclined. But none can replace Sasha "Shy" Mallon, the next-door neighbor from her girlhood. As teenagers, they discovered themselves together; then Shy fled to Seattle and entered a relationship with a man. Now Shy has returned, pregnant, to be at her dying mother's bedside. Alta joins her there; and soon they are tending toward intimacy again, in a way that shakes up their notions of who they are, as well as opening up the secrets of their mothers' lives."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

Other Editions

  • Shy girlFarrar, Straus, Giroux1999-01-01

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