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​"Galaxy Girls: Wonder Women
WINNER OF THE WILLA CATHER FICTION PRIZE​
"Galaxy Girls: Wonder Women is a splendid collection of stories about women who have lifted at least a portion of their lives from the ordinary to the extraordinary ... We can learn a lot about how to embellish our lives, and how to rise above the daily routine by exercising our own creativity with the materials at hand. Galaxy Girls is a dazzling read!"
-- Carolyn Doty, Willa Cather Prize Judge
"Sans Homme"
Winner of the Nelson Algren Award
"The Twins"
"Abeyance"
"Lucy"
"Empire Beauty Salon"
"The Gumball Man"
"Remarkable"
"J*E*W*E*L"
"Star Box"
Included in O'Henry Prize Stories
"Lost in Casablanca
"The Empire Beauty Salon" becomes, through the powers of Anne Whitney Pierce's descriptions, a place as real and convincing as any character, a beauty shop that forms the plot of the story itself."
"Anne Whitney Pierce's short stories celebrate sentiment and dramatize characters who discover their imagination in ordinary life itself. Her prose is deceptively clear, pure, 'spoken' yet finally beautiful, and filled with phrasing as vivid as the life she creates..."
-- Louise Erdrich, Introduction to American Fiction, Number 2
I recall the first story by Anne Whitney Pierce I ever read -- it was "Sans Homme" -- and being absolutely arrested from its opening sentence. That was five years ago....
"I once heard Mrs. Applebaum, an old busybody who lived in our apartment building, talking about my mother in the park...."
