Ellie is a rebellious teenage girl craving for more excitement and freedom. She leaves home and heads toward a popular biker bar called The Clubhouse. Ellie does not receive the warmest of welcomes, but her spunk and determination get her an introduction to a local motorcycle club. Following one of the rides, her crush Strider describes his venture into a cave. Little does Ellie know, this particular cave is about to change her life forever.

Ellie is a rebellious teenage girl craving for more excitement and freedom. She leaves home and heads toward a popular biker bar called The Clubhouse. Ellie does not receive the warmest of welcomes, but her spunk and determination get her an introduction to a local motorcycle club. Following one of the rides, her crush Strider describes his venture into a cave. Little does Ellie know, this particular cave is about to change her life forever.

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"The book is informed by the Vietnamese immigrations of the nineteen–seventies but is filled with social observation of contemporary middle–class culture and indie sensibility . . . Quietly beautiful, Strom's stories are hip without being ironic." —The New Yorker When The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys was first published in 2006, it was groundbreaking in its depiction of contemporary young Vietnamese women living in the United States, centering their ordinary lives as mothers, lovers, friends, and daughters against the backdrop of immigration and assimilation. Available now for the first time in paperback and featuring an introduction by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud and a new preface by the author, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys is a beautifully written, psychologically astute foray into the rite of female passage.

Women writers celebrate and meditate on their acts of defiance, from using well-chosen expletives and engaging in less-than-ideal parenting techniques to getting back at an ex and wearing a stolen Girl Scout badge.

There are mysteries to be solved in the cosmopolitan Southern city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama as the community prepares for the internationally-recognized Kentuck Festival in the adjoining city of Northport. Besides burglaries and assaults, Detective Addie Bramson finds herself coming to the aid of two sisters searching for their missing grandmother, mother, and baby brother. And all of this before she gets the phone call reporting murder. As the cases untangle, Addie learns that the secrets of some citizens hang heavy in the graveyard.