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A fresh, delightful, affecting first novel about a young body piercer's crush on the girl next door. <p>There was a girl in Alta's bed when the phone rang, a girl all red-haired and fair-skinned and fleshy, which is to say, nothing like Shy. And that's just the way Alta wanted it. She was tired of trying to turn a vague resemblance into desire. They say things get easier in time and people forget.</p> <p>Everything had changed, and for the better, but she remembered it all.</p> <p>Alta Corral is a somewhat unique character in contemporary fiction-a young woman confident, even nonchalant, about her sexual conquests of other women. She works at a full-service parlor, rides a motorcycle, and has slept with every girl in San Francisco who is so inclined. But none can replace Sasha "Shy" Mallon. As teenagers, Shy and Alta discovered themselves together; then Shy fled for Seattle and a relationship with a man. Now she has returned, pregnant, to be at her dying mother's bedside. Alta joins her there; and soon they are tending toward intimacy again, in a way that shakes up their notions of who they are, as well as opening up the secrets of their mothers' lives. Elizabeth Stark writes abou

Who reads Shy Girl : a Novel?

Author

Stark, Elizabeth, 1970-

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374263522

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.3 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14