Lucky Girls: Stories
Nell Freudenberger's brilliantly observed debut story collection
The debut collection of Nell Freudenberger, who first came to national attention with the 2001 New Yorker publication of the title story, Lucky Girls encompasses five novella length stories set in Southeast Asia and on the Indian subcontinent.
In "Lucky Girls," an American woman who has been involved in a five-year affair with a married Indian man feels bound, following his untimely death, to her memories of him and to her adopted country. And in "Letter from the Last Bastion," a teenage girl begins a correspondence with a middle aged male novelist, who, having built his reputation writing about his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam, confides in her the secret truth of those experiences, and the lie that has defined his life as a man.
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Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novels Lost and Wanted, The Newlyweds and The Dissident, and of the story collection Lucky Girls, which won the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Named one of The New Yorker's "20 under 40" in 2010, she is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
"Throughout the book...are moments of sharp humor and wise insight."--Los Angeles Times
"Freudenberger is...a fantastic writer."--Houston Press
"In simple, elegant prose, she renders foreign landscapes with unsentimental precision."--Vogue
"Extraordinary stories."--The Journal News
"Lucky Girls is a beautiful story that has a graceful simplicity."--People
"Skillful and assured...Freudenberger's prose is smooth.--Raleigh News & Observer
