Praise for
Boys and Girls Like You and Me
“In every situation she creates, Kyle provides an honest look at complex relationships through her witty, honest, bitter-sweet prose.”
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The Star-Ledger
(Newark)
“What Kyle does best—and, lucky or her readers, re-quently—is parachute into ordinary
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. lives and use herextraordinary talent to render them unorgettable.”
—The Miami Herald
“Stories about the tender, terriying path rom youth to adult-hood.”
—People
“The complex emotional lives o women and girls are exploredin this riveting collection. [Kyle’s] haunting characters, withtheir vulnerability and cruelty, live on in the imagination. Astrange, darkly humorous trip into the emale psyche.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“[Kyle’s] short story repertoire is intelligent indeed; eachpiece is compelling and compact, with prose that creates awhole world in only a handul o pages. .
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. They’re everyday stories, but Kyle’s succinct prose elevates them to a strikingly otherworldly status.”
—The Minnesota Daily
“Kyle has written an engaging collection o tales. Fans o Lor-rie Moore or Alice Munro’s short stories will fnd much toappreciate in these moments o emale experience.”
—Library Journal