Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Hailed by critics as the debut of a major literary, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing has dazzled and delighted readers and topped bestseller lists nationwide. Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, and relationships, and the treacherous waters of the workplace. With an unforgettable comic spin on the mating dance, and captures in perfect pitch what it's like to be a young woman coming of age in America today.

SYNOPSIS

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing explores the life lessons of Jane, the contemporary American Everywoman who combines the charm of Bridget Jones, the vulnerability of Ally McBeal, and the wit of Lorrie Moore.

FROM THE CRITICS

Bitch Magazine

Melissa Bank gets it exactly right: her Jane Rosenal is intelligent, witty, perspective, and moody—and has a lot more her mind than where her next boyfriend is coming from; you could have dinner with her, you could work with her, you could be her.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt - The New York Times

...[A] charming, funny collection of seven linked fictions....[A]ll the considerable humor of these stories turns on Jane's wonderfully clear sense of the trickiness of language....The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing...[contains] amusing lessons in how to stalk and find...yourself.

USA Today

Because Jane is funny and perceptive, the reader willingly goes places with her.

Time Magazine

Truly poignant....There is an exquisite honesty to Jane's relationships.

Cosmopolitan