No whack-jobs these, but women juggling all that life lobs at them. “Bonnie ZoBell’s stories are fierce, daring and populated with characters who yearn for connection, contentment. Meg Tuite, author of Domestic Apparition and Disparate Pathos ZoBell delivers a subtle, yet raw cast of characters in this unforgettable collection. The powerhouse narrators in these mesmerizing tales come out of the volcanic ash fully intact and more defined, if not a bit soiled by the subversive factors that beg to break them. “The Whack-Job Girls is a high-potency collection that blasts through the death rattle of jobs and relationships that torment us, attempting to gnaw away until we disintegrate into soporific depictions of what we are not. ZoBell scores a knockout with The Whack-Job Girls.”
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One never knows what to expect as the stories twist and turn into unexpected places.
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“This collection whacks readers throughout with its original stories full of blessed images such as turquoise thumbs, adult playrooms, and acoustic popcorn. Stefanie Freele, author of Feeding Strays and Surrounded by Water
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“ZoBell’s stories can be found in that spicy locale, somewhere between softness and terror, somewhere unsafe and smoldering.” Susan Tepper, author of From the Umberplatzen These poignant tales shine with pinpoints of light, even the darkest of “The women in The Whack-Job Girls & Other Stories could be you or me or any gal walking down the street who has lost her way, for a while, or forever. Myfanwy Collins, author of Echolocation and I Am Holding Your Hand Indeed, you might even come to realize that, in fact, you are these women.” As you read, you will fall in love with these women. “Told with equal measures of humor, heartache, and empathy the stories within Bonnie ZoBell’s smashing debut, The Whack-Job Girls, will captivate you. Read this book for the magic of its language but come back to it again and again for its just plain good stories.” “Bonnie ZoBell’s The Whack-Job Girls is long enough to make you envious, yet short enough to get the job done in the way few writers can. Kathy Fish, author of Together We Can Bury It and Wild Life The Whack-Job Girls & Other Stories is a beautiful collection.”
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ZoBell’s writerly touch is light, compassionate, and wise. The stories are charged and funny, sometimes dark, and always deeply human. “Filled with sad songs and scarred lovers, restless yearners and fired-up women, dogs and cats and watchful, demonic monkeys, this collection by Bonnie ZoBell crackles with its own internal energy and verve. Kyle Minor, author of In the Devil’s Territory and Praying Drunk They offer the reader the special pleasure of double-vision: Your left eye sees what seems to be, and your right eye sees what is. “Bonnie ZoBell’s stories are full of women and men whose lives have been bifurcated by their secrets and their fantasies. Steve Almond, author of God Bless America “Bonnie ZoBell is my favorite sort of whack-job girl-a writer with a sharp eye, a sharper tongue, and a reckless heart.
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Dark humor creeps through these quirky tales as one thinks she sees the Virgin Mary on her living room wall, another losing her eyesight refuses to the end to quit her rock’n’roll parade, still another must clean mysteriously revolting mishaps as a hotel maid working graveyard. The Whack-Job Girls portrays a posse of women who either don’t quite fit in or are deeply disconnected from society.