Short stories by Nell Freudenberger
NELL FREUDENBERGER is the author of the novels Lost and Wanted, The Newlyweds and The Dissident, and of the story collection Lucky Girls, which won the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Named one of The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” in 2010, she is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, daughter, and son.
Listing 3 stories.
A recently divorced couple struggle with their three-year-old son's erratic behavior in the wake of their divorce.
A teenage girl struggles with her mother's sickness and disability. When a handsome older stranger begins to linger around her neighborhood, she is both frightened and intrigued by him.
Sexual and intellectual tensions rise between a 29-year-old Mumbaikar tutor and a young American girl living in Bombay. While writing a college application essay for her, the tutor reflects on his time attending Harvard in the United States.