Excerpt from You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Name: You Have a Friend in 10A
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Maggie Shipstead
ISBN: 9780525656999

You Have a Friend in 10A

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by Maggie Shipstead

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First Published:
May 17, 2022, 272 pages

Paperback:
Apr 2023, 272 pages

Book Reviewed by:
Rebecca Foster
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- Short Stories
- Europe
- West, USA
- Colo. Wyo. Mont.
- 20th Century (multiple decades)
- Contemporary
- Parenting & Families
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"It's getting dark."

"We'll be quick."

"All the guys are busy?"

"It's campfire night, and C.J. and Wayne went to town." Still she hesitated, he hoped not because she sensed his nervousness or smelled whiskey on him. "I thought you could take Hotrod. Give him some exercise."

This excerpt from The Cowboy Tango is from Maggie Shipstead's 2022 collection You Have a Friend in 10A. The Cowboy Tango was first published in 2009 in the Virginia Quarterly Review and is available in full at VQR; but it is possible that this earlier version will differ from the story published in You Have a Friend in 10A.

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