![]() From the Baltimore beltway to the Smoky Mountains, these stories describe the lives of people not-so-quietly desperate to break away. Stop Breakin Down, by John McManus (Picador, $13). (His creator got an early start, too J.T. Inspired by his mother, a 12-year-old transvestite hustler and vagabond named Cherry Vanilla seeks his fortune in the wilder parts of West Virginia. These biting, funny stories by a D.C.-based writer first ran in the New Yorker. ![]() The testosterone-fueled angst of being a semiprivileged young American male in the '90s. Sam the Cat and Other Stories, by Matthew Klam (Vintage, $12). Twenty short stories by the longtime New Yorker writer, set in Dublin (her hometown) and New York. The Rose Garden, by Maeve Brennan (Counterpoint, $14.95). By the author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt. ![]() Mona Gray, longtime quitter and numbers enthusiast, finds her careful emotional calculations thrown off when she takes a job teaching math to second graders. ![]() "Progress," in the form of an American anthropologist, stumbles into a Brigadoon-like village still following medieval ways in the Hebrides.Īn Invisible Sign of My Own, by Aimee Bender (Anchor, $12). The Testament of Yves Gundron, by Emily Barton (Washington Square, $13.95). ![]()
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