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Modern stories for modern times, Crash Diet is at once brilliant and bitter, happy and heartbreaking.
In eleven stories, acclaimed novelist Jill McCorkle tells the varied tales of today’s southern women, the lives they end up leading, and the loves that distract them. Sandra knows that the best revenge is her ex-husband’s credit card; Ruthie is stuck owning a motel that the highway has bypassed; Anna is a widow who goes to airports and looks in on other people’s lives; Bunny waits eagerly for her absent sister’s postcards for advice on how to live. Stuck in the slow lane, gunning their motors, they are women living the real life, hoping things will get better, but surprised when they occasionally do.
Jill McCorkle is the author of eight previous books, five of which were New York Times Notable Books. Two stories in Going Away Shoes were published in The Best American Short Stories. Winner of the New England Book Award, the Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Award for Literature, she teaches writing at North Carolina State University and lives with her husband in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
