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The scene is a small town in Maine in the 1950s. Louisa Fisher, called "Fish" by her friends, yearns for true love. She also wants to be a writer, hoping for a bestseller before she is twenty. Unnerved by the boys at school with their leering question "What Do Cowboys Like?," Fish is afraid to show ignorance and makes up for it with fanciful flights of prose in the novel she is secretly penning.
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Reviews
"Tracy's fresh, likable characters and sure grasp of the teenage female psyche animate her second novel (after Winter Hunger, 1990)."
Publishers Weekly
"Understatement is the charm of this novel about the earnestness of teenage ardor and the self-consciousness of courtship."
School Library Journal