Barbara The Slut And Other People

"The characters in Lauren Holmes’ debut short story collection are fully, sometimes exasperatingly real, portrayed by a young writer with a great deal of charm and not a hint of pretension. The stories in this book are sometimes painful, sometimes brilliantly funny, and most often both; Holmes can find the humor in the worst situations and the tragedy in the most glorious moments. But it’s her characters that carry the action — imperfect, difficult and defiantly human. In other words, they’re people. Just like us."