About the Author

Melissa Bank is the author of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot. She won the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction, and holds an MFA from Cornell University. Her work has appeared in Allure, Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Guardian, North American Review, O: the Oprah Magazine, Ploughshares, Washington Post, Zoetrope and many others. Her books have been translated into 33 languages. She divides her time between New York City and East Hampton.

Reviews

Beautifully written and very funny. . . as with Salinger and Carver, there is crystalline simplicity to Bank's prose
*Guardian*

I read the first chapter and thought, 'Wait, I know this girl' . . . I realized she was my friend . . . she made me laugh, she made me weep, and when I closed the book at the end of the day, I knew I'd never forget her
*Ruth Ozeki*

Charming and funny
*New York Times*

A smart, ruefully funny chronicle of a modern young woman's search for love . . . a model of well-crafted narrative building to a thoughtful, hopeful conclusion. Bank has created a delightful heroine who deserves her happy ending-even though any reader who has really been paying attention to the sharp, unsentimental details knows that all happy endings are provisional
*Kirkus*

One marvels at Bank's assured control of her material, her witty, distinctive voice and her ability to find comedy, pathos and drama in ordinary lives . . . phenomenally good
*Publishers Weekly*

This chronicle of a New Yorker's relationships has a wit and perceptiveness that singles it out from the crowd
*Guardian*

As hilarious as Girls' Guide is, there's a wise, serious core here
*Wall Street Journal*

A sexy, pour-your-heart-out, champagne tingle of a read-thoughtful, wise, and tell-all honest. Bank's is a voice that you'll remember
*Cosmopolitan*

Bank writes like John Cheever, but funnier
*Los Angeles Times*