Twenty Grand

<p>In this dazzling literary debut Rebecca Curtis displays the gifts that make her one of the most talented writers of her generation. Her characters--young women struggling to find happiness love success security and adventure--wait tables run away from home fall for married men betray their friends and find themselves betrayed as well.</p><p>In Hungry Self a young waitress descends into the basement of a seemingly ordinary Chinese restaurant; in Twenty Grand a young wife tries to recover her lost fortune; in Monsters one family's paranoia leads to a sacrifice; and in The Witches an innocent swim on prom night proves more dangerous than anyone could have imagined. With elegant prose and a wicked sense of humor these stories reveal Curtis's provocative and uncompromising view of life one that makes her writing so poignant and irresistible.</p>