Debra B Monroe

Source of Trouble

Winner of The Flannery O'Connor Award, this critically acclaimed debut collection features ten stories set in the plains of the Midwest and the honky-tonks of the South. This is a world where happiness is half heartache, dreams dwindle, and infidelity becomes just another way to extend the family. C...

Wild, Cold State

A collection of short stories by the author of The Source of Trouble includes ""The World's Great Love Novels,"" ""Crossroads Cafe,"" and ""Royal Blues,"" about women seeking love in a land of cold winds and irresponsible men. 12,500 first printing.

Newfangled: A Novel

From award-winning writer Debra Monroe comes a funny and poignant story of a woman's quest to find a physical and emotional home. Maddie, a refugee from two marriages, wanders from place to place seeking new options and new connections. She eventually settles in a cozy old neighborhood in Tucson, g...

No Longer the Victim

Raised in the Delta of Mississippi, Jan Cowan is repeatedly molested by her mother's lesbian lover, Judy Christine Hays, a small-town cop. Immediately after finishing high school, Jan flees Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee. Patterned after her molester, Jan embarks on a career with the Memphis Poli...

Shambles: a novel

"A smart, funny, wry, and winning book."—Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have ShiftedDelia Arco spends her workdays counseling teenagers as outcast as she was and her nights caring for the baby daughter she loves fiercely. Searching furiously for the mother in herself, she struggles to understan...

Wild, Cold State

In the lavishly acclaimed collection of short stories A Wild, Cold State, Flannery O'Connor Award - winning author Debra Monroe takes us into the lives of women striving for love and emotional fulfillment amidst a forbidding topography of glacial winds and stormY, unpredictable men. Set in rural Wis...

On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain

After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie. Though elated that...

My Unsentimental Education (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction) (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.)

A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers but never q...

The Source of Trouble

A Wild, Cold State

A Wild, Cold State

Newfangled

Newfangled

The Source of Trouble

Shambles