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Character tropes² are the worst. Mom has written about geek girls, goth girls, mean girls, valley girls, bionic girls, biker girls, Gilmore Girls,³ and Girls Gone Wild.⁴ When a draft overflows with tropes like those, I swat Mom’s nose with a rolled-up newspaper.

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Miss Catherine La Grange, spinster

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Janice Harayda
Janice Harayda

Written by Janice Harayda

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Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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