Surrender, Dorothy (30 page)

MEG WOLITZER
,
a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, is the author of
Sleepwalking, Hidden Pictures, This Is Your Life,
and
Friends for Life.
Her short fiction has appeared in
Best American Short Stories 1998
and
The 1999 Pushcart Prize.
Wolitzer has taught at Skidmore College and at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Copyright Page

Dedication

Prologue

1: Brown-Eyed Girl

2: Girl Talk

3: The Friends of Sara Swerdlow

4: With Sara

5: The Visitor

6: Smiling Buddha

7: The Shopping Trip

8: Campfire Girls

9: Thrilling in Bed

10: Golden Boy

11: Sara in the Sky

12: In the Blood

13: A Mother’s Kisses

14: Spinsters!

15: Enough is Enough

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About the Author