Short stories by Maxine Swann

Maxine Swann is the author of three novels: Flower ChildrenSerious Girls, and The Foreigners. She has received a Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters and her stories have been featured in The Best American Short StoriesO’Henry Prize StoriesPushcart Prize Stories, and the series Selected Shorts. Her New York Times Magazinearticle “The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble” was chosen for Longform’s “Most Entertaining of 2013,” and optioned for a feature film by Fox Searchlight. She has taught creative writing at Barnard College in New York, The Walrus School in Buenos Aires and currently teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. Born in Pennsylvania, she has been living in Buenos Aires since 2001 and is a founding editor of the bilingual cultural magazine The Buenos Aires Review.

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After experiencing what should have been the most idyllic childhood, four siblings must learn how to assimilate back into the real world.

When two sisters and their best friend befriend the new boys in their rural town, the girls' thoughts shift from make-believe to the realties of puberty.