Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls
Cris Mazza
(Author)
Description
While she prepares for the rescue, Hester discovers that the man with whom she almost had an affairher mentor when she was a 23-year-old student teacherhad been simultaneously having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student. Hester mines her own memories of the would-be affair and ultimately tracks down the former 16-year-old. When these two women with a shared scandal in their pasts confront one another, the meeting coincides with the last step necessary to rescue the teenage prostitute Hester has tried to protect. It is only this mayhem that allows Hester to finally take ownership of her decisions and regrets.
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Product Details
| Publisher | Emergency Press |
| Publish Date | April 22, 2014 |
| Pages | 324 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780988569485 |
| Dimensions | 8.0 X 5.3 X 1.0 inches | 0.9 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
Cris Mazza takes no prisonersand we wouldn t want it any other way. Powerful, provocative, this novel is a complex blend of first-person narrative, journal entries, letters, newspaper articles, and the richly imagined life-of-another, all steered by a fully conscious narrator who interrogates her past, the nature of memory, desire, social conscience, jealousy, responsibility, regret. The result is a compelling read that pulls us backwards and forwards through time, causing us to reconsider everything we thought we knew about sexual politics and oppression. "Various Men Who Knew Us As Girls" will make you uneasy, in all the best ways of fiction.
Rilla Askew, author of "Kind of Kin"
Cris Mazza has interwoven the stories of three contemporary womenone tempted, one involved, and one enslavedin a fiercely honest novel about the continuum from flirtation to abuse. The story is feminist in the best sense. It wipes aside the pieties around the subject of harassment to probe the multiple realities of desire.
Janet Burroway
It's not just the title that's provocative. The genius of Cris Mazza is to overturn every applecart she can reach. This is one of her finest moments.
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "The Devil s Highway" and "Into the Beautiful North"
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"Cris Mazza takes no prisoners--and we wouldn't want it any other way. Powerful, provocative, this novel is a complex blend of first-person narrative, journal entries, letters, newspaper articles, and the richly imagined life-of-another, all steered by a fully conscious narrator who interrogates her past, the nature of memory, desire, social conscience, jealousy, responsibility, regret. The result is a compelling read that pulls us backwards and forwards through time, causing us to reconsider everything we thought we knew about sexual politics and oppression. "Various Men Who Knew Us As Girls" will make you uneasy, in all the best ways of fiction."
--Rilla Askew, author of "Kind of Kin"
"Cris Mazza has interwoven the stories of three contemporary women--one tempted, one involved, and one enslaved--in a fiercely honest novel about the continuum from flirtation to abuse. The story is feminist in the best sense. It wipes aside the pieties around the subject of harassment to probe the multiple realities of desire."
--Janet Burroway
"It's not just the title that's provocative. The genius of Cris Mazza is to overturn every applecart she can reach. This is one of her finest moments."
--Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "The Devil's Highway" and "Into the Beautiful North"
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