Stephanie Wilbur Ash is a former editor at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine. She lives in Minneapolis and Mankato, MN, and is originally from rural Iowa. This is her first novel.
"Stephanie Wilbur Ash's new novel The Annie Year is a fierce hymn
to small Midwestern towns, and the women who live there." --Euan
Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio "This is a keeper, a fresh and quirky
'Main Street' for the Midwest... Stephanie Ash writes with a wry
smile and an obvious adoration of Iowa small-town life. Its
faux-preachy tone keeps us -- snooty types from the big cities
along the river -- at arm's length while Ash's character embraces
her imperfect corner of the world. It's a bold first novel by Ash."
--The Star Tribune "Ash's debut novel brilliantly captures the
slanted quirkiness of a Midwest full of small-business owners and
exploding home-methamphetamine labs... Darkly hilarious and weirdly
beguiling." --Kirkus Reviews "A lonely accountant waffles between
pessimism and hope in this quirky debut... Tandy's voice is
intriguingly and deceptively complex, leading readers to glimpse
the longing beneath her professional veneer." --Publishers Weekly
"Stephanie Ash's The Annie Year is an incredible debut-- hilarious
and insightful and energetic. Ash sassily mines the dark humor of
Midwestern life with utter confidence and creates buoyant and
indelible characters who will stick in your heart and mind forever
and ever." --John Jodzio, Author of Knockout "The people in this
town will try to tell you that... So The Annie Year begins with its
small-town Greek chorus. Meanwhile, Tandy Caide, sardonic CPA and
pathological people-pleaser, enters the year of her reckoning, the
year she starts making her own moral ledger. Like the mythological
Annie-- you know, the one who sings 'It's a Hard Knock Life' but
also 'Tomorrow'-- Tandy has spunky charm and believable innocence.
I read this mordantly funny book in one sitting, it's a fine novel
with a main character you'll miss once you've finished." --Debra
Monroe, author of My Unsentimental Education "Stephanie Ash's
completely original comic novel is a caustic, gimlet-eyed, cry from
the heart for small town America and a very funny look at big
desires in a small place." --Mark Haskell Smith, author of Raw: A
Love Story
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