num_pages: 296
description: Infused with eroticism, poignancy, and insight that cuts to the bone, these stories lead us into a tipping world of emotional wagers, loss and discovery, power and impulse. A marriage is tested as a mother struggles to cope with the disappearance of her prostitute daughter. Two angry women in a minivan act out their frustrations as they rampage through the night. A pill-dependent nurse juggles neuroses, infatuation, and exhaustion while supervising a high school dance-a-thon. A quiet tattoo artist takes in a homeless woman, and stumbles upon the true nature of beauty, jealousy, and love. Written in taut, unflinching prose, these stories are edgy and dark, sharply observed and uniquely imagined. As provocative as it is brilliant, Dead Girls introduces Nancy Lee as an astonishing and original new literary talent.
language: English
title: Dead Girls
titlecomplete: Dead Girls
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry, Canadian Literature, Canada, Adult, Feminism, Contemporary, Short Story Collection, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 546
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
publisher: McClelland & Stewart