"Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate novel about the young women of modern America, their friendships, their betrayals, and their anxious cravings for everything from sex to pastry." Jim Crace, author of The Pest House
"With penetrating insight and solid authority on the rural West, Ladette Randolph has carved out a compelling saga of a young woman ripening into maturity. You cannot help but cheer for Mary Rasmussen. Randolph's work is tough, tender, and brave, a pitch-perfect take on the hard beauty of life on the Nebraska prairie." Pamela Carter Joern, author of The Floor in the Sky
Sherrie Flick is the author of the award-winning flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Norton's Flash Fiction Forward and New Sudden Fiction. A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, she works in Pittsburgh as a freelance writer and artistic director for the Gist Street Reading Series.
Ladette Randolph is the author of the short story collection This is Not the Tropics and the editor of two anthologies, A Different Plain and The Big Empty. She is the recipient of three Nebraska Book Awards, a Rona Jaffe grant, a Pushcart Prize and a Virginia Faulkner award. She has published stories and essays in numerous literary journals and is editor in chief of Ploughshares. She teaches at Emerson college.
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