Virgin and Other Stories
A confident and mesmerizing fiction debut, from the winner of the Plimpton Prize
Set in the South, at the crossroads of a world that is both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson''s stories evoke the inner lives of young women and men navigating sexual, emotional, and spiritual awakenings. In "The Negative Effects of Homeschooling," Conner, sixteen, accompanies his grieving mother to t...
A confident and mesmerizing fiction debut, from the winner of the Plimpton Prize
Set in the South, at the crossroads of a world that is both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson''s stories evoke the inner lives of young women and men navigating sexual, emotional, and spiritual awakenings. In "The Negative Effects of Homeschooling," Conner, sixteen, accompanies his grieving mother to t...
