Hair of a Fallen Angel - Tepper, Susan Isla
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Meet Janelle, a girl with flame-red hair and singing chops who rides an old Schwinn, lives in a ramshackle house with a mosquito problem and takes up with the crocodile brawler, Stevie-J and his magenta Corvette. It's a high stakes twosome for a girl who cuts toenails in a barber shop and sees herself as invisible as corn waiting to be shucked from the husk. Tepper's alluringly visceral prose engages the reader's senses-the heat and honeysuckle, the stickiness of waffles topped with ice cream. Ready for a date with destiny shinier than a karaoke bar, Tepper's Janelle, the girl who never…mehr

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Meet Janelle, a girl with flame-red hair and singing chops who rides an old Schwinn, lives in a ramshackle house with a mosquito problem and takes up with the crocodile brawler, Stevie-J and his magenta Corvette. It's a high stakes twosome for a girl who cuts toenails in a barber shop and sees herself as invisible as corn waiting to be shucked from the husk. Tepper's alluringly visceral prose engages the reader's senses-the heat and honeysuckle, the stickiness of waffles topped with ice cream. Ready for a date with destiny shinier than a karaoke bar, Tepper's Janelle, the girl who never thought big, is a joyous creature whose light illuminates the novel's darker corners.
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Susan Isla Tepper has been a writer for twenty plus years and is the author of eleven published books of fiction and poetry, and five Stage Plays. She writes in all genres, and is published extensively worldwide. Tepper received a Pulitzer Prize Nomination for the Novel What May Have Been (adapted for the stage and re-titled The Crooked Heart, premiered in a staged-reading at the Irish Repertory Theatre, NYC, on October 25, 2022.) Other honors include winner in the Francis Ford Coppola Zoetrope Contest for the Novel (2003), Second Place in Story/South Million Writers Award, Best Story of 17 Years of Vestal Review-the longest continually running flash fiction magazine in America. Many of her works have been performed onstage. "Deer" the title story of her collection DEER & Other Stories (2009) was initially published at American Letters & Commentary, and went on to be performed at Inter/Act Theatre's "Writing Aloud" in Philadelphia, as well as NPR's Selected Shorts. She created and hosted FIZZ a popular reading series at KGB Bar, NYC, which ran for a decade and showcased the talents of our literary stars as well as many first time authors. Before settling down to the writing life, Susan Isla Tepper has worked as an actor, singer, flight attendant, Cable TV producer, airline marketing manager, interior designer, overseas tour guide, rescue worker and more. She blames it all on a high interest range. Tepper is a native New Yorker.