Growing Girls
Jeannne Marie Laskas is a columnist forThe Washington Post Magazine, a GQ correspondent, and the author ofFifty Acres and a Poodleand the award-winningThe Exact Same Moon. A professor in the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, she also writes the "My Life as a Mom" column forLadies Home Journal.  She lives with her husband and two children at Sweetwater Farm in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania.From the Hardcover edition.