 | The Porno Girl: and Other Stories
Publication Date: June 11, 2003Brazen and sharp-witted, Merin Wexler’s linked stories bind mothers, daughters, and wives wrestling with a fear of intimacy in sexual and family relationships. These are women and teenagers caught in the pivotal conflicts of their lives, questioning and testing out their desirability, and their fitness as wives, mothers, and friends.Merin Wexler touches a nerve, capturing longings and terrors that are both all-too-familiar and usually kept private.A new mother finds herself inexplicably drawn to the local porn shop, her baby strapped to her chest.A caree...
 |  | Save Yourself: And Other Stories
Publication Date: August 1, 2004Brazen and sharp-witted, Merin Wexler’s linked stories document women and teenagers caught in the pivotal conflicts of their lives. A new mother finds herself inexplicably drawn to the local porn shop, her baby strapped to her chest. A career mom decides to have a second child to keep her nanny. A teenaged babysitter sleeps with the dad to get closer to the mom. The glamorous proprietress of the summerhouse next door takes advantage of her infatuated teenage neighbor to suppress her feelings of estrangement from her indifferent husband. Wickedly funny a...
|  | Mother Love (Voices of the South)
Publication Date: April 2003| Series: Voices of the South Set in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mother Love is the story of three sisters: their shared history, the complex bonds that unite them, and the contradictory relationship that each has with their passionate and difficult mother, who has recently died.Whenever the sisters are together, they tell one another stories about their mother.The stories can be troubling, terrible, or hilarious, but they always bring the sisters closer and reinforce their mother's continuing presence in their lives.Mother Love is a passionate and deeply moving b...
|  | My Mother's Daughter: Stories by Women
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|  | Running Away
Publication Date: July 31, 2008Isabel finally has it all: a rising career as a TV producer, a warm relationship with Marshall, the man who wants to marry her, and a tenuous rapport with her rebellious teenage daughter, Denny. But in the blink of an eye, everything changes. When Denny Runs away, Isabel's world falls apart. Marshall is incapable of understanding her anguish over her daughter's disappearance, and just when she needs him most, he, too, runs away. Alone, Isabel must deal with the mounting pressures of a competitively cutthroat job, her anxiety over Denny's whereabouts, and the my...
|  | Shore Lights
Publication Date: September 2, 2003A USA Today Bestselling AuthorLiving under her mother's roof makes Maddy feel like a teenager -- and a sullen misunderstood one at that -- but Maddy is worried about her mother and determined to give her something to smile about, even if it means engaging in a heated on-line auction for an old Russian samovar. Ex-firefighter Aidan O'Malley wanted that samovar for his teenage daughter, and he isn't happy at being outbid. But from a bidding war, a most unlikely -- and romantic -- connection is formed. Both wary and weary, neither Maddy nor Aidan expect to car...
|  | Mothers & Daughters:Irish Short
Publication Date: November 19, 1998A collection of Irish short stories, including: "Cards", where a daughter tries to shock her mother with her bohemianism; and "In Bed", where a mother shows enormous patience in dispelling her daughter's phobia about fleas and dirt. ...
|  | No Place of Angels
Publication Date: June 1, 1998Carys Beddows has never understood why her mother hates her so much. Certainly jealousy plays a part—Maria believes that young Ryder Tempal would be hers if her daughter was out of the way, and she throws Carys out of the house. Maria continues with her vicious schemes until fate intervenes. ...
|  | The Seamstress (New Writing)
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|  | Revising Romance a Novel
Release Date: May 1, 2004With an ex-husband in the wings and a cantankerous author front and center, editor Elaine Salter is disillusioned witht he idea of romantic involvement. But when she finds herself drawn to local bookseller Nathan Marks, Elaine reassesses her expectations and concludes tht romance isn't dead. It's alive and well, and full of surprises. ...
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