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Tightly plotted and fast paced, Girl Crazy is a cinematic ride through one man's obsession with a younger woman. Justin, a dissatisfied community college teacher, meets Jenna and is attracted at once to her mixture of toughness, vulnerability and ripe sexuality. Jenna is unlike anyone Justin has ever known -- through her he discovers a world of drugs and sex, casual violence and intimidation that at first frightens and then thrills him.


Justin falls deeper into Jenna's thrall, particularly as her erratic behaviour keeps him guessing. When Jenna ends the relationship abruptly, Justin finds he isn't willing to let go of this new life, or of Jenna, without a fight.

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"Daring and well executed... Girl Crazy is a hot floor show for those of us desperate for the present to finally get its time in the Canadian literary spotlight."

Globe and Mail

"Smith excels at presenting the sexual fixations of the male psyche... a story of scathing insight."

Quill & Quire


"His best novel yet... Girl Crazy is a frank and funny novel.”

Toronto Star

"Girl Crazy rips a mile a minute... It powers on to a conclusion that's both satisfying and oddly disquieting."

The Gazette (Montreal)

"A darkly comic study of fractured masculinity”

The Walrus

Books
Girl Crazy
Men's Style
Diana
Muriella Pent
The Princess and the Whiskheads
Young Men
Noise
How Insensitive
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