White Girls

About the Book

The Union, Ohio, of the 1950s and ´60s in this piercing novel is a place of suburban comfort and racial bigotry. There, Loretta Dardio, a young girl growing from curiosity into adolescent defiance, risks ostracism and heartbreak as she pursues a romance on the other side of the color line.

"Takes us clearly into the heart of rambunctious sexuality [in a] standard American small town. Across its corners creep the influential shadows of that classic Ohio village, Sherwood Anderson´s Winesburg."
New York Times Book Review

"A fine collection. . . . moving and impossible to regret.". .
The New Yorker

" A winner…courageous and absolutely right artistically."
Chicago Tribune

About the Author

Lynn Lauber grew up in northwestern Ohio and now lives in Nyack, New York, where she works as an audiobook abridger and teacher. She is also the author of the novel 21 Sugar Street, published by WW Norton, and essays published in the New York Times and various anthologies.