Stop That Girl: Fiction

From the start of Elizabeth McKenzie’s beguiling fiction debut we are drawn into the offbeat worldview of sharp-eyed intrepid Ann Ransom.Stop That Girl chronicles Ann’s colorful coming-of-age travails from her childhood in a disjointed family through her tender adolescence and beyond. Along the way she discovers the absurdities that lurk around every corner of a young woman’s life by way of oafish neighbors overzealous boyfriends prurient vegetable salesmen sour landlords and an iconoclast grandmother known even to her family as Dr. Frost. Keenly funny and highly original Stop That Girl is a brilliant examination of the exigencies of love and the fragile fabric of family and heralds the emergence of a remarkable new voice in fiction.