"Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty."

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About Antonya Nelson

Antonya Nelson is an American writer known for short stories, novels, and teaching in creative writing programs. Her fiction has appeared in major literary magazines and anthologies.

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