'Stop That Girl': Anti-Fairy Tales

By Alan Cheuse

Published March 16, 2005 at 7:00 PM HST

Alan Cheuse reviews Stop That Girl by California writer Elizabeth McKenzie, nine short stories so true to life that you'd think the events described must have actually happened.

Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse died on July 31, 2015. He had been in a car accident in California earlier in the month. He was 75. Listen to NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamburg's retrospective on his life and career.

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