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Rachel DeWoskin

Rachel DeWoskin

The boundaries of cruelty

by Keith Taylor

posted 5/13/2011

Rachel DeWoskin grew up in Ann Arbor, and her new novel, Big Girl Small, makes it clear that she remembers it well. Here her smart and witty protagonist, Judy, tries to imagine what the city might have been like before she was born, back in the 1980s:

the place would have had more boutiques and fewer strip malls, the same stadium and roads,

 
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