The Wave

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?These stories are terrific. Caren Gussoff documents the complicated lives of young women today ? the tawdry and the glossy, the painful and the sweet ? with panache. The long story, ?The Wave?, is a particularly compelling and truthful look at how other people, even those we most admire, are never quite who we want them to be? Kate Pullinger Praise for Homecoming ?Deals insightfully and unsentimentally with the issues the Jerry Springer show frequently airs, showing how seemingly normal families nourish the impulse for self-destruction? Scotland on Sunday ?A debut of rare talent, w ith this novel standing as a daring counter-cultural shot in the arm against the impending era of George Dubya?s moral majority? Big Issue in the North ?Caren Gussoff has written a novel as bruising and as bleak as anything by Denis Johnson. Homecoming is that good? The Crack ?A difficult and unsettling vision of love and life among the disaffected? Flux