GIRLCHILD — tupelo hassman

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

The Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award

NPR Best Book of the Year

ALA Alex Award Winner (Adult for Young Adults)

Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award

Booklist Editor's Choice: Best Adult Books of the Year for Young Adults

Largehearted Boy: Favorite Novels of the Year

Library Journal's Best Books of the Year

Poets & Writers Notable First Novel

Barnes & Noble's The Long List

Shortlist: The Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize

Finalist: The Poetry Center's Paterson Fiction Prize

Finalist: The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

"And what a difference Tupelo Hassman makes. Hassman ... unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you’ll be in awe. This novel rocks."

-Mameve Medwed, The Boston Globe

"This amazing debut spills over with love but is still absolutely unflinching and real. That is no easy combo to pull off, and Hassman does it repeatedly with precision and grace. Rory D. is ebulliently alive on the page; she's really that kind of fresh new voice people talk about, leaving us with a completely memorable character."

-Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

"Ms. Hassman is such a poised storyteller that her prose practically struts. Her words are as elegant as they are fierce. A voice as fresh as hers is so rare that at times I caught myself cheering, and it wasn’t necessarily for the kid."

-Susannah Meadows, The New York Times

"It's a testament to Hassman's assurance as a writer that, even though we readers have the option of leaving, we hunker down in that trailer park with Rory for the long dry season of her youth."

-Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

"Life is a crazy risk, a foolish venture, a journey hardly worth attempting by poor daughters raised by poor daughters who have no maps or guidebooks... Rory Dawn Hendrix... is a long time quiet before she roars from her mother’s trailer in Reno, Nevada. Her voice is funny and pained, confused and outrageous. This story is your worst white nightmare. Tupelo Hassman's GIRLCHILD is a triumph and a philosophical treatise on survival."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters and American Salvage

"Hassman’s wildly inventive prose explodes off the page."

-Heather O'Neill, The Lonely Hearts Hotel and Lullabies for Little Criminals

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san francisco chronicle - review

the week - review (novel of the week)

litseen - interview

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counterpunch - review

columbia daily spectator - review

full stop - interview

the nervous breakdown - review

bookreporter - on recording girlchild

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the quivering pen - my first time

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los angeles review of books

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kenyon review - interview

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