Lucky Girls

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Nell Freudenberger’s brilliantly observed debut story collectionThe debut collection of Nell Freudenberger, who first came to national attention with the 2001 New Yorker publicatio n of the title story, Lucky Girls encompasses five novella length stories set in Southeast Asia and on the Indian subcontinent. In “Lucky Girls,” an American woman who has been involved in a five-year affair with a married Indian man feels bound, following his untimely death, to her memories of him and to her adopted country. And in “Letter from the Last Bastion,” a teenage girl begins a correspondence with a middle aged male novelist, who, having built his reputation writing about his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam, confides in her the secret truth of those experiences, and the lie that has defined his life as a man. Show more