Lucky Girls

<p><strong>Nell Freudenberger's brilliantly observed debut story collection</strong></p><p>The debut collection of Nell Freudenberger who first came to national attention with the 2001 <em>New Yorker </em>publication of the title story <em>Lucky Girls </em>encompasses five novella length stories set in Southeast Asia and on the Indian subcontinent. </p><p>In Lucky Girls an American woman who has been involved in a five-year affair with a married Indian man feels bound following his untimely death to her memories of him and to her adopted country. And in Letter from the Last Bastion a teenage girl begins a correspondence with a middle aged male novelist who having built his reputation writing about his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam confides in her the secret truth of those experiences and the lie that has defined his life as a man. </p><p> </p>