Confronting the imminent death of her father and her own pregnancy by her married ex-lover, thirty-year-old Manhattan advertising executive Lissy Jablonski looks back to the past to her fifteenth summer, when her gynecologist father left her mother for another woman and she and her mother embarked on their own bizarre, life-changing odyssey. A first novel.
Julianna Baggott has published dozens of short stories and poems in such magazines as
The Southern Review, Chelsea, Poetry, and
Best American Poetry 2000. A recipient of fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and Bread Loaf Writers Conference, she won the 1998 Eyster Prize for short fiction.
She is the author of a forthcoming book of poems, This Country of Mothers. Girl Talk is her first novel and foreign rights have already been sold in six countries. She lives in Newark, Delaware, with her husband, poet David G.W. Scott, and their three children.