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girlchild
REVIEWS
Book Browse (Editor's Pick)"...undeniably a series of small gems tied together by one character in search of answers, it's also a broader meditation on what it means to grow up female in small town America." -Norah Piehl
Booklist
"Hassman’s creatively-titled, short, free-form chapters are helium-filled imagination fodder, and Hassman takes what could be trite or unbelievable in less-talented hands and makes it entirely the opposite." -Annie Bostrum
Books Matter
"With Girlchild—a book that far surpasses most debuts—Hassman reminds readers just how much fiction still can accomplish." -Tiffany Gilbert
The Boston Globe
"And
what a difference Tupelo Hassman makes. Hassman ... unfolds a
compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so
fresh, original, and funny you’ll be in awe. This novel rocks." -Mameve
Medwed
On the Rise: Artists to watch in 2012
"If I were back on the staff of my high school yearbook I would vote Tupelo Hassman and her book Most Likely to Go Viral on Goodreads and Most Likely to Succeed in the Eyes of Critics." -Nicole Lamy
On the Rise: Artists to watch in 2012
"If I were back on the staff of my high school yearbook I would vote Tupelo Hassman and her book Most Likely to Go Viral on Goodreads and Most Likely to Succeed in the Eyes of Critics." -Nicole Lamy
Columbia Daily Spectator
M.F.A. Grad's girlchild proves complex, poetic
"With her first novel, girlchild, Columbia M.F.A. graduate Tupelo Hassman proves herself to be a welcome new voice in literary fiction."-Allen Johnson
Corduroy Books
"girlchild is, actually, a fucking great book—the first great book of 2012, for my money." -Weston Cutter
Counterpunch
Be Prepared
"Girlchild ... is a devastating commentary on the American class system... Tupelo Hassman’s novel doesn’t seem like fiction at all, but the raw inhumanity of our system. -Charles Larson
The Daily Loaf
The Great American Trailer Park Epic
"It’s a hard road for the first-time novelist. How do you get attention for your writing, unless you’re a serial killer, disgraced politician or a pregnant reality-show sleaze? Of course, there’s also talent. That’s the route Tupelo Hassman is using." -William McKeen
The Free Lance-Star
Young Girl, Amazing Reslience
"This is Hassman's debut novel, and it's a stunner. Here's hoping she goes on to write more that will equal girlchild's charm and bright, burning fire." -Lucia Anderson
The Kirkus Review
"With a compelling (if harrowing) story and a wise-child narrator, Hassman’s debut gives voice—and soul—to a world so often reduced to cliché. A darkly funny and frequently heartbreaking portrait of life as one of America’s have-nots."
The Library Journal (starred review)
"This is a gorgeous first novel, as humorous as it is heartbreaking." -Mara Dabrishus
Los Angeles Review of Books
Bringing Up Babies
"Hassman captures the imagination as a place where children flee." -Susan Salter Reynolds
NPR's Fresh Air
Scrappy girlchild Forms a Girl Scout Troop of One
"It's a testament to Hassman's assurance as a writer that, even though we readers have the option of leaving, we hunker down in that trailer park with Rory for the long dry season of her youth." -Maureen Corrigan
The Nervous Breakdown
"Hassman’s daring debut novel is a joy to read. The rich and dense language, full of surprise, word play, and revelation, makes the book a sensual pleasure, every chapter a prose poem.Hassman takes the classic bildungsroman story arc and shakes it up into a kaleidoscope of gorgeous sensual experience made up of pointy shards that can cut you through." -Sharon Harrigan
The New York Times
Editor's Choice, Sunday Book Review
The Perils of Coming of Age in a Trailer Park
"Ms. Hassman is such a poised storyteller that her prose practically struts. Her words are as elegant as they are fierce. A voice as fresh as hers is so rare that at times I caught myself cheering, and it wasn’t necessarily for the kid." -Susannah Meadows
The Perils of Coming of Age in a Trailer Park
"Ms. Hassman is such a poised storyteller that her prose practically struts. Her words are as elegant as they are fierce. A voice as fresh as hers is so rare that at times I caught myself cheering, and it wasn’t necessarily for the kid." -Susannah Meadows
Newsday
"Harrowing and lyrical."
People
"In Hassman's skilled hands, what could have been an unrelenting chronicle of desolation becomes a lovely tribute to the soaring, defiant spirit of a survivor." -Helen Rogan
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This debut possesses powerful writing and unflinching clarity."
PW Pick of the Week
"We’re all mightily impressed with Tupelo Hassman’s debut, a weird outsider’s journey into Girl Scouting" -Marc Schultz
PW Pick of the Week
"We’re all mightily impressed with Tupelo Hassman’s debut, a weird outsider’s journey into Girl Scouting" -Marc Schultz
The Rumpus
Lit-Link Round-up
"...this debut novel has powerful, messy humanity and dark humor to spare." -Gina Frangello
San Francisco Chronicle
Trailer tale
"The real pleasure of the book comes from following the wisecracking, tough and sensitive Rory as she struggles to survive and escape the sort of life no girl should have to lead." -Michelle Quint
the [tk] review
Reading for Pleasure: Tupelo Hassman' girlchild
"The book straddles the line between art and reality to an uncomfortable degree, and, as in real life, we can’t help but stare as the entire concept of normalcy at the Calle ignites in flames before our eyes... We devour every word, even though each turn of the page only breathes ferocious life into the blaze." -Jennifer N. Kurdyla
INTERVIEWS
The Debut ReviewOn Writing: An Interview with Tupelo Hassman (with James W. Powell)
Full Stop
with Nika Knight
The Kenyon Review
A Brief Interview with Tupelo Hassman (with Weston Cutter)
Litseen
A Conversation with Tupelo Hassman: girlchild and the city with the most trailers in the world with LJ Moore
NPR's Beyond the Headlines with Michael Hagerty
girlchild: Author Discusses Novel Set in Reno
The Nervous Breakdown
Tupelo Hassman: The TNB Self-Interview with Tupelo Hassman
The Nevada Review
Meet Tupelo Hassman (with Caleb Cage)
Publishers Weekly
When Gamblers and Readers Get Together, Anything Can Happen; a Q&A with Tupelo Hassman (with Gabe Habash)
Shamonica
Tupelo Hassman gives birth to a baby girlchild with Amity Bacon
CURIOSITIES
Barnes & Noble's The Long List and a Barnes & Noble.com Staff PickThe Campaign for the American Reader's Page 69 Test
Meet girlchild in Farrar, Straus and Giroux's Work in Progress
Tupelo Hassman's: Introductions, How to Make and hear about Hardbound: A Novel's Life on the Road in Tupelo Hassman: Book Tour as Documentary
Flavorwire
Tupelo Hassman's Guide to Getting Your Literary Girl Survivor Badge
Green Apple Books' Book of the Month
The Huffington Post's New Books You Need To Know About and
The Book We're Talking About This Week: girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
girlchild's Rory Dawn made you a CD: Largehearted Boy's Book Notes and made it onto the Favorite Largehearted Boy's Book Notes Author Playlist Essays
Litseen Pick of the Week
Reading at The January Rumpus co-hosted by ZYZZYVA
An Austen Intervention hosted by The Office of Letters and Light
Poets & Writers Notable First Novel
The Quivering Pen Front Porch Books pick
The Week Novel of the Week
