title: The Send-Away Girl: Stories
author:  Barbara Sutton 
description: Companionship emerges in unexpected places for the characters of Sutton's shining collection of 10 short stories, a Flannery O'Connor Award&ndash;-winning debut that brims with life and wit. For nine-year-old Marta in "<I>Tra il devoto et profano</I>," the book's opening story, it comes in the form of the minister who hangs around her grandmother's house getting jovially plastered between writing sermons, taking the place of Marta's absent mother and father. In "Rabbit Punch," an emotionally unstable academic fills the void left by her lost job, friends and husband with booze and pills until she encounters a despicable nine-year-old boy on a similar path of self-destruction. Sutton does not dwell on the tragedy of these lives; rather, she endows her characters with sardonic wit. The title of the story "Tenants" refers to the various interlopers&mdash;an ex-boyfriend who refuses to move out, a suicidal renter and a woodchuck&mdash;endured by a mother, daughter and sister. The hilarious convergence of their tenant problems ends in a poignant sum-up: "One giant continuum of the man part of mankind&mdash;don't pay the rent, trash the place, behave like animals. And all of it&mdash;somehow&mdash;in the name of love." The unexpected unites the impressive range of voices in this delightful, imaginative book. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Getaway Girl
  
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  Copyright © 2018 Tessa Bailey
  
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  Table of Contents
  
  [Title Page](index_split_000.html#filepos171)
  
  [Copyright Page](index_split_001.html#filepos349)
  
  [Chapter One](index_split_003.html#filepos4131)
  
  [Chapter Two](index_split_004.html#filepos21313)
  
  [Chapter Three](index_split_005.html#filepos40996)
  
  [Chapter Four](index_split_006.html#filepos58782)
  
  [Chapter Five](index_split_007.html#filepos77838)
  
  [Chapter Six](index_split_008.html#filepos97479)
  
  [Chapter Seven](index_split_009.html#filepos121566)
  
  [Chapter Eight](index_split_