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Girl Beside Him

By: Cris Mazza

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Girl Beside Him

By: Cris Mazza

Transgressive and addictive, Mazza once again probes the limits of human relationships, taking her readers into a region of dark sexuality, torn between love and destruction."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Alabama Press

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1573660922

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9781573660921

The Decade of Letting Things Go

A Postmenopause Memoir

By: Cris Mazza

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The Decade of Letting Things Go

A Postmenopause Memoir

By: Cris Mazza

The Decade of Letting Things Go is a book of linked essays containing still-relevant experiences that take place after the age of becoming socially and/or professionally invisible, as the author searches for the elusive serenity of self-acceptance among a growing list of losses. The decade contains many of life's expected losses: of pets, parents, old mentors, and symbols of enduring natural places; plus the loss of identities: child, student, partner, "successful" author. Some of late life's experiences aren't so easily categorized: having a mentally ill neighbor try to get you to come outside and fight; unpacking the complicity in 30-year-old #MeToo incidents; "hooking up" with a "boy" from your teenaged past; struggling to accept that lifelong sexual dysfunction will never wane; realizing a deeply trusted mentor from 45 years ago might be declining into dementia when he claims 6-year-old girls are being forced to run races to put condoms on erect penises; plus a lifelong attachment to a childhood wound of having a "preferred child" as a sibling. And there's the apparent loss of hope: for ever finding contentment in the mark one makes in the world or for ever forming an identity that brings contentment. Except that these latter two have no expiration date, and the exhausted author, at the end, is ready to keep looking.

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0820367540

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Charlatan

By: Cris Mazza

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Charlatan

By: Cris Mazza

And now may you find way into the complexities, and convolutions, the deeply moving investigations at the heart of the work of Cris Mazza"--

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1956005439

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9781956005431

Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls

By: Cris Mazza

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Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls

By: Cris Mazza

Would her life have been better if she’d had sex with her supervisor when she was 23? Hester Smith is a woman who always played life near the sidelines—until she decides to rescue a teenage Mexican prostitute. She’s up against the border sex trade in Southern California that works like a drug cartel, where the smuggled contraband is teenage girls forced to work as prostitutes in undeveloped canyons just outside suburbia. Law enforcement agencies know it happens, as do investigative journalists, yet the illegal sex trade continues to exist. While she prepares for the rescue, Hester discovers that the man with whom she almost had an affair—her mentor when she was a 23-year-old student teacher—had been simultaneously having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student. Hester mines her own memories of the would-be affair and ultimately tracks down the former 16-year-old. When these two women with a shared scandal in their pasts confront one another, the meeting coincides with the last step necessary to rescue the teenage prostitute Hester has tried to protect. It is only this mayhem that allows Hester to finally take ownership of her decisions and regrets.

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Emergency Press

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0988569485

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9780988569485

It's No Puzzle: a Memoir in Artifact

By: Cris Mazza

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It's No Puzzle: a Memoir in Artifact

By: Cris Mazza

A dazzling array of starshot across the sky from the brilliant Cris Mazza, who reminds us again and again that we must not only hold the line when it comes to our individual and community worth, but endlessly imagine a future. Cris Mazza makes feminism act like a verb, an ever-adapting organism, a space of change.

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Spuyten Duyvil

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195600565X

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9781956005653

Former Virgin

Short Fiction

By: Cris Mazza

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Former Virgin

Short Fiction

By: Cris Mazza

This new collection of stories explores problems and situations caused only by the ordinary people who suffer through them. The stories in Former Virgin circle a question many women have begun asking themselves lately: What have I DONE to myself?

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150

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University of Alabama Press

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1573660337

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9781573660334

Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls

By: Cris Mazza

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Emergency Press

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0989473651

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Girl Beside Him

By: Cris Mazza

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Girl Beside Him

By: Cris Mazza

Transgressive and addictive, Mazza once again probes the limits of human relationships, taking her readers into a region of dark sexuality, torn between love and destruction."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Alabama Press

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1573660922

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Is It Sexual Harassment Yet

By: Cris Mazza

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Is It Sexual Harassment Yet

By: Cris Mazza

From the author of Revelation Countdown and Animal Acts, this collection of short stories conveys a sens e of the bewilderment and excitement of sexual desires.

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University of Alabama Press

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1573660418

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9781573660419

Many Ways to Get It, Many Ways to Say it

A Novel

By: Cris Mazza

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Many Ways to Get It, Many Ways to Say it

A Novel

By: Cris Mazza

Fiction. In the 80's a young woman advertises her services as a model to photographers; she discovers their weaknesses, seduces them, then extorts them by claiming to be under-age. In the 90's a 40-something man is married to a doctor who only views him as a sex object. In these two reversals of sexual harassment and gender-inferiority, Mazza explores such issues asthe lnaguage of bodies, sexual desirability, latent adolescence, plus whatever the genders share...and what they can never share.

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0970321252

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Trickle-Down Timeline

By: Cris Mazza

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Trickle-Down Timeline

By: Cris Mazza

In the era just before computers, at the dawn of "safe sex," for a sub-generation of people who came of age without a war in Vietnam to unite them, the stories in Trickle-Down Timeline are glimpses into individual lives subtly influenced by the political and social milieu of the 1980's. For some people, the surplus and glut of the 80's were part of some other world, not theirs; and it couldn't be a "me-generation" if they didn't know who they were or where they were going. They were often just finding out what they were going to want; or they were, in starting out, already where they were going to end up.

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1597091332

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Waterbaby

A Novel

By: Cris Mazza

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Waterbaby

A Novel

By: Cris Mazza

A gripping tale of compulsion, obsession, and forgiveness, set so evocatively amidst the fogs and furies of the offseason Maine coast. It's also an intriguing exploration of the ways in which our ancestral pasts echo within our own psyches." --Lisa Alther, author of Kinflicks and Kinfolks As children, Tam and her older brother were swimming when she suffered her first epileptic seizure. He pulled her from the water and was crowned a hero. Tam was labeled “disabled” and never swam again. And so began 30 years of vigilance, never allowing her body to betray her, never allowing her brother or her family or anyone else to influence her path. Now, in middle age, a lifetime’s worth of control has taken its toll. Exhausted, she heads to Maine where, while working on a genealogy project, she falls under the spell of two dead women: an ancestor, Mary Catherine, who died at 33; the other, the town ghost. Through their cloistered, tragic lives Tam relives her own life over and over--until a distant cousin forces her to see herself in a new light. This novel of one woman's quest to transcend self-imposed limitations is superbly crafted and richly satisfying, and "shows us how, through resuscitating our pasts, and rescuing each other, we might just save ourselves" (Alex Shakar, author of Savage Girl).

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Catapult

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1933368845

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9781933368849

Indigenous

Growing Up Californian

By: Cris Mazza

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Growing Up Californian

By: Cris Mazza

Engaging memoir about growing up in rural Southern California and identifying as a "Californian" for life.

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City Lights Books

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0872864227

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9780872864221

Indigenous

Growing Up Californian

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Growing Up Californian

By: Cris Mazza

Engaging memoir about growing up in rural Southern California and identifying as a "Californian" for life.

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Former Virgin

Short Fiction

By: Cris Mazza

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Short Fiction

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1573660337

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Revelation Countdown

By: Cris Mazza

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Revelation Countdown

By: Cris Mazza

Projects onto the open road not the nirvana of personal freedom, but rather a type of freedom more closely resembling loss of control While in many ways reaffirming the mythic dimension of being on the road romanticized in American pop and fold culture, Revelation Countdown also subtly undermines that view. These stories project onto the open road not the nirvana of personal freedom, but rather a type of freedom more closely resembling loss of control. Being in constant motion and passing through new environments destabilizes life, casts it out of phase, heightens perception, and skews reactions. Every little problem is magnified to overwhelming dimension. Events segue from slow motion to fast forward. Background noises intrude, causing perpetual wee hour insomnia. Imagination flourishes, often as an enemy. People suddenly discover that they never really understood their travel companions. The formerly stable line of their lives veers off course. In such an atmosphere, the title Revelation Countdown, borrowed from a roadside sign in Tennessee, proves prophetic. It may not arrive at 7:30, but revelation will inevitably find the traveler.

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University of Alabama Press

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0932511732

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9780932511737

Many Ways to Get It, Many Ways to Say it

A Novel

By: Cris Mazza

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A Novel

By: Cris Mazza

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0970321252

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Your Name Here

A Novel

By: Cris Mazza

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Your Name Here

A Novel

By: Cris Mazza

An affair with a married man enables a woman to finally come to terms with a rape she underwent 10 years earlier. Until then, Erin Haley had been unable to remember the incident, involving a colleague in a radio station where she worked as a journalist.

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1566890314

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