title: The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women
author:  Rosalie Morales Kearns 
description: Thirty-six spellbinding stories about the active, spirited lives of<br /><br />women. . . . Throughout each is the common denominator of an active female<br /><br />character who embarks on her own hero's journey. . . . With prose that<br /><br />ranges from the humorous to the lyric and forms that range from the real<br /><br />to the magical, here is a vital addition to contemporary literature.<br /><br /><i>Kirkus</i><br /><br />This is more than women being unruly: this is women<br /><br />being courageous, outrageous, brutally honest, and more than anything,<br /><br />talented. The stories sing off the pageand then turn into a howl of rage,<br /><br />delight and hope. <i>The Female Complaint</i> is a collection that<br /><br />deserves to be taught, and read, for years to come.Rene Denfeld, author<br /><br />of <i>The Enchanted</i><br /><br />Forty years ago when women blazed literary<br /><br />trails, they were paths through the woods where no one heard the trees<br /><br />falling. This time on a paved road through landscapes urban, suburban,<br /><br />exurban, and rural, these women are still throwing themselves and their<br /><br />lives out into new thematic territory.Cris Mazza, author of <i>Various<br /><br />Men Who Knew Us as Girls</i> and co-editor of <i>Chick-Lit: Postfeminist<br /><br />Fiction</i>
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  #  Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  Leah Hagen wasn’t going