In the Time of the Girls (BOA Editions)

Anne Germanacos will read and sign her debut short story collection In the Time of the Girls.

"The beauty of this unconventional collection is in its details: each moment offers a glimpse at a larger story while giving the reader intimate, wry, and acute details about the narrator or her surrounding characters.  This makes for a light and lively reading experience." --Publishers Weekly

Born in San Francisco, Anne Germanacos has split her time between Greece and San Francisco for thirty years.  Together with her husband, Nick Germanacos, she ran the Ithaka Cultural Studies Program on the islands of Kalymnos and Crete, and taught writing, literature, and Modern Greek.  Her writing is informed by her life between two cultures, continents, languages and the constant need to leave someone she loves in order to go to the others she loves.  Her writing is in English but infused with the experience of having partially surrendered to another culture and it comes through in style, tone, and form at least as much as in content.  She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and has studied Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, and Spanish.  Her work has appeared in over sixty literary reviews and anthologies, including Dzanc's Best of the Web 2009.

Photo of the author by Kristin Hoebermann.

In the Time of the Girls (Hardcover)

By Anne Germanacos

$14.00

ISBN-13: 9781934414385
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: BOA Editions Ltd., 9/2010

Set in Greece, this innovative debut uses discrete, telling moments to create fast-paced stories that are richly pleasurable to read.

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