Trailer Girl by Terese Svoboda

"Svoboda has written a book of genuine grace and beauty," writes the New York Times Book Review. "Trailer Girl," the title novella, is about a woman released from an institution who claims to see a wild child wandering with the cows outside the trailer park. In "Psychic," a clairvoyant knows she's been hired by a murderer, in "Leadership," a tiny spaceship lands between a boy and his parents, in "Lost the Baby," a partying couple forget where they dropped off their baby. "Unnerve thyself: the violent and enthralling short stories in Trailer Girl detonate on contact," writes Vanity Fair. Bison Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, is reissuing Trailer Girl and Other Stories in paper fall 2009.

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• mental illness
• trailer park
• novella
• Terese Svoboda
• Nebraska short stories