· "In Silver Girl, Leslie Pietrzyk fearlessly explores the complex inner life of a young woman and her myriad complicated relationships with friends and sisters, while unearthing secrets about her traumatic past. Pietrzyk treats her characters with incredible empathy and tenderness, producing a deeply affecting novel about the terrible things we ask our young women to endure."ISBN · Leslie Pietrzyk is the author of SILVER GIRL, just released by Unnamed Press, and called “profound, mesmerizing, and disturbing” in a Publishers Weekly starred review. Her collection of unconventionally linked short stories, THIS ANGEL ON MY CHEST, won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. · Set in the s in Chicago during the Tylenol murders, Leslie Pietrzyk’s emotionally resonant and timely Silver Girl tells the story of a fraught relationship between an unnamed working-class narrator and her best friend, the upper class Jess who has recently broken off an engagement. Each girl also has a complicated relationship with a sister.
Silver Girl ebook By Leslie Pietrzyk. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Silver Girl is a deftly psychological account of the nuances of sisterhood. Contrasting obsession and longing, need versus desire, Leslie Pietrzyk. Hey everyone! We are super excited to announce a tour we're hosting for SILVER GIRL by Leslie Pietrzyk which releases on February Join us at City Lit Books for a reading by Leslie Pietrzyk, author of Silver Girl at pm on Thursday, March 29 th, A searing novel of female friendship, class, trauma, and coming of age narrated by an unforgettable voice. A nameless young woman starts her freshman year of college with one goal in mind: survival.
Leslie Pietrzyk is the author of 3 novels including PEARS ON A WILLOW TREE and SILVER GIRL the prize-winning story collection, THIS ANGEL ON MY CHEST. "Leslie Pietrzyk’s haunting SILVER GIRL begins in , with a nameless narrator starting her freshman year at a prestigious Chicago-area university. The narrator escaped her economically depressed Iowa hometown, but the emotional baggage of a grim childhood and dysfunctional family continue to weigh her down like the bulky, cheaply made trunk that holds her belongings. Set in the early '80s, against the backdrop of a city terrorized by the Tylenol Killer, a local psychopath rumored to be stuffing cyanide into drugstore meds, Silver Girl is a deftly psychological account of the nuances of sisterhood. Contrasting obsession and longing, need versus desire, Leslie Pietrzyk delves into the ways class and trauma are often enmeshed to dictate one's sense of self and how a single relationship can sometimes lead to redemption.
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