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Like Karl Marlantes' novel, Matterhorn, Hilary Thayer Hamann's newly 'released' novel, Anthropology of an American Girl (Spiegel & Grau), had an earlier life in publication. In her case, it was a self-published edition in 2003 that caught on wherever it went—which is not always so far with self-published efforts. Now newly edited and revised, Anthropology of an American Girl is telling readers, on a whole other scale, its singular, coming-of-age story, from Long Island high school into early adulthood in the big city. "Closely observed, Holden Caulfield-ish story of teendom in Manhattan and its purlieus in the age of Me ... This much-revised version retains all the admirable qualities of the original but expands on aspects of the story line ... Eveline is bright, precocious and a touch confused. It being the late 1970s, her family life is a touch confused as well, forcing some choices along the way ... Eveline is a great explainer of things as they are, whence the 'anthropology' of the title, and the ways of her tribe are sometimes strange indeed ... The details are exactly right, down to the depressing air of a high-school hallway. Life forces its lessons on Eveline constantly; she finds herself confronting illness, death, grief, myriad fears and worries, and there's always a heightened awareness of sex and sexuality, of the power of her body to gain what she wants and to betray her. Intelligent and without a false note—a memorable work." - Kirkus Reviews.
