Trailer Girl and Other Stories Author:Terese Svoboda In this stunningly original collection of seventeen short stories, Terese Svoboda navigates a terrain of alienation and loss with searing, poetic prose. I talk like a lady who knows what she wants,” begins the vagrant narrator of the title story. She insists there’s a wild child hiding among the cows in the gully near her home. Others... more » in the trailer park think it’s just herself she’s chasing, but no one helps her sort out the truthuntil there’s a murder. Stark and disturbing, Trailer Girl” is a story of cycles of child abuse and the dream to escape them. In Psychic” a clairvoyant knows she’s been hired by a murderer, in Leadership” a tiny spaceship lands between a boy and his parents, in Lost the Baby” a partying couple forget where they dropped off their baby, and in White” a grandfather explains to his grandson how a family is like a collection of chicken parts. Frequently violent, always passionate, these often short short stories are not the condensed versions of longer works but are full-strength, as strong and precise as poetry. Watch the Trailer Girl book trailer on YouTube. (20100208)« less