My Date with Satan

Wicked, irreverent and funny, this brilliant collection of short stories takes on the American mid-West and shows the flip side of suburban life. The voices are various, from how a schoolgirl copes with having her face slashed open with a razor by her best friend, to the teacher who is scoring drugs from her pupils and finding the whole thing is getting dangerously out of hand, to 'The Island of Boyfriends', in which a suburban teenager finds herself shipwrecked among primitive hunks! Stacey Richter's characters live on the edge but we can not help but identify with their emotions and how they react to the unusual situations they are forced into.