Susan Isa Efros - Girls Gone Astray (Corte Madera)

Girls Gone Astray is a collection of short and shorter stories about women in their teens to eighties who venture off the traditional path to discover unexpected and potent truths about themselves. A high school student falls in love with her best girlfriend and promises not to tell anyone; a wealthy elderly woman with dementia goes for a drive with a homeless man; a psychic gets locked out of her office and with the help of her spirit guide talks her way back inside; a teenager idolizes her uncle until she finds out who he really is; a woman writer unaware that she has only twenty minutes to live is obsessed with getting a cup of coffee. These and other smart, provocative, humorous and emotionally charged stories will surprise and delight you.

Susan Isa Efros' work has appeared in Amelia, Ascent, Christopher Street, the Feminist Art Journal, Narrative Magazine, the Patterson Literary Review, Paris Transcontinental, Yellow Silk and is forthcoming in Juked. She is a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and the Funny Times. She is the author of Walking Vanilla, a novel, and the editor of This Is Women's Work, an anthology. Susan was awarded a Marin Arts Council Individual Writers Grant in 2003 for her short fiction, "The Ozzie and Harriet Factor." She lives in Marin County with Jerilyn Gilbert, her partner of 30 years.

 

Location: 

51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925