Throw Like A Girl

A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" (*Newsday*) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection *Who Do You Love* with *Throw Like a Girl*.

Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson's indelible characters -- lovers, wives, friends, and mothers -- speaks her piece -- wry, angry, hopeful -- about the world and women's places in it.