The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo

by Doyle, Darrin

• ISBN13: 9780312592318
• ISBN10: 0312592310
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-05
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

In this charming novel, Doyle paints a captivating portrait of the all-American family--if the all-American family's youngest child had eaten an entire city in Michigan. With vivid, acerbic wit, Doyle details the life of the world's most gifted eatist.

Author Biography

DARRIN DOYLE was born and raised in Michigan and even lived in Kalamazoo. (Fortunately, he was not there during Audrey’s “renovations”) His short stories have appeared in Puerto del Sol, The Long Story,  Alaska Quarterly Review, Antietam Review, Laurel Review, and, Night Train, among others. He currently teaches fiction writing and literature at Central Michigan University.

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"Darrin Doyle’s The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo is wildly out there, but its message about family dysfunction is achingly real."—DailyCandy.com, Best New Winter Reads Pick

“As quirky, funny, and masterful as it is, Darrin Doyle’s The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo isn’t just a book about a girl who ate a city—it’s about the hunger we all have, for love, for family, and for home."—Alix Ohlin, author of The Missing Person and Babylon and Other Stories

"Darrin Doyle's The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo is about, well, the girl who ate Kalamazoo, but it's about much more than that: family, religion, urban blight and renewal, fame, literature, sister love, and weightlifters. This is why Audrey Mapes is such an incredible character: in creating this girl who can and will eat everything, Darrin Doyle has also created a way to talk about the things that matter most to us. It's an incredible, riotous, beautifully written, sneakily profound novel. I don't know of another book like it; I would be jealous of it if I weren't so busy being amazed by it."—Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

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