Waiting for Elvis - Paperback

by Toni Graham (Author)

Zany, over-the-top and sexy, while achingly poignant and real, Waiting for Elvis is the bitingly funny follow-up to Toni Graham's award winning collection The Daiquiri Girls . In 11 darkly comic, interconnected stories that read as seamlessly as a novel, Graham exposes the hilarious side of loneliness and introduces Jane, the most beguiling single woman since Bridget Jones.

Nearing 50, Jane is a San Francisco psychotherapist-turned-dog walker, a wild woman in an ever-changing body. She hasn't had a lover since Lars, the unfaithful, hedonistic love of her life, was decapitated in a car accident after a New Year's Eve quarrel. But grief be damned! With equal parts alcohol and attitude, Jane lurches after all life has to offer--ever reminded that meeting the right man is as likely as a proposal from a dead Elvis.

Author Biography

Toni Graham is a native of San Franciso, currently an Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. Her first book, 'The Daiquiri Girls' (UMass/1998) was the winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction. Co-editor of Fiction for "The Cimarron Review," her stories are published in many literary and popular American magazines, including 'Playgirl.'