num_pages: 285
description: 'Unforgettable and utterly affecting. You can't turn the pages fast enough' Dave Eggers Judy Budnitz, author of the Orange Prize shortlisted novel If I Told You Once and the critically acclaimed collection Flying Leap. creates her own brand of stark, dystopian reality in this impressive collection of blisteringly inventive and surreal new stories. Budnitz's first-person narrators are pitch perfect, helping the reader to see from their perspective, no matter how odd it might be. Clever, comic and perpetually surprising, these are stories that demand to be read again and again. 'A truly talented young writer.' Times
language: English
title: Nice Big American Baby
titlecomplete: Nice Big American Baby
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Dark, Literature
ratings_count: 650
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Silver)
publisher: Harper Perennial