The Porno Girl

Brazen and sharp-witted, Merin Wexler's linked stories bind mothers, daughters, and wives wrestling with a fear of intimacy in sexual and family relationships. These are women and teenagers caught in the pivotal conflicts of their lives, questioning and testing out their desirability, and their fitness as wives, mothers, and friends. Merin Wexler touches a nerve, capturing longings and terrors that are both all-too-familiar and usually kept private. A new mother finds herself inexplicably drawn