From Booklist*Starred Review* Gr. 9-12. Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002), a Booklist Editors' Choice, was Oates' first YA novel, but as this collection of previously published stories shows, the author's adult writing has often focused on teenage girls. Betrayal is a theme throughout here, and there are no strong feminist heroes standing tall and free in these stories. Rather, these disturbing tales are about vulnerable, wild, rebellious, scared young women, several of whom fall victim to older, predatory males who know how to lure them with the thrill of danger and make them betray the best in themselves. One of the best stories is "Life after High School," a story in which a woman's teen past comes into the present and changes what she thought she knew. Oates makes poetry with ordinary words that take readers right into the restless psyches of young women terrified of their own violence. Far from role models, these characters wrestle with the fearful fantasies they dare not even articulate, "when every other thought you think is a forbidden thought . . . that must have come to you from somewhere else from someone you don't know who knows you." Hazel RochmanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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