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?A smart, swift-paced debut . . . Ann embraces life with a wary insight that couldn?t be more engaging.? O Magazine
Random House
April 2006
240 pages
ISBN: 0812972287
Trade Size (reprint)
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Young Adult | Fiction
From the start of Elizabeth McKenzieΓ―ΒΏΒ½s beguiling fiction debut, we are drawn into the offbeat worldview of sharp-eyed, intrepid Ann Ransom. Stop That Girl chronicles AnnΓ―ΒΏΒ½s colorful coming-of-age travails, from her childhood in a disjointed family through her tender adolescence and beyond. Along the way, she discovers the absurdities that lurk around every corner of a young womanΓ―ΒΏΒ½s life, by way of oafish neighbors, overzealous boyfriends, prurient vegetable salesmen, sour landlords, and an iconoclast grandmother, known even to her family as Dr. Frost. Keenly funny and highly original, Stop That Girl is a brilliant examination of the exigencies of love and the fragile fabric of family, and heralds the emergence of a remarkable new voice in fiction.
 Media BuzzTalk of the Nation - May 29, 2006
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