A Working Girl Can't Win and Other Poems

Deborah Garrison, whose work as an editor and writer has enlivened the pages of The New Yorker for more than a decade, evokes the characters and events of her everyday life with intense feeling and, more important, conjures up the universal dilemmas and pleasures of a young woman trying to come to terms with love and work.

Deborah Garrison was born in Ann Arbor. She was educated at Brown University and New York University. She is now a senior nonfiction editor at The New Yorker, where she has worked since 1986. She and her husband and young daughter live in Montclair, New Jersey.

Saying Yes to a Drink	p. 3
Father, R.I.P., Sums Me Up at Twenty-Three	p. 5
Long Weekend at Your House	p. 6
November on Her Way	p. 8
She Was Waiting to Be Told	p. 10
She Thinks of Him on Her Birthday	p. 12
An Idle Thought	p. 14
On the Road to Getting You	p. 16
The Firemen	p. 18
3:00 A.M. Comedy	p. 20
The Boss	p. 22
A Working Girl Can't Win	p. 24
The Widow's Sex Life	p. 26
I Answer Your Question with a Question	p. 28
You Prune Your List in Summer	p. 30
Her Majesty Loses Her Touch	p. 33
Maybe There's No Going Back	p. 35
Please Fire Me	p. 37
Superior	p. 39
Fight Song	p. 41
The Warning	p. 43
Happily Married	p. 46
Perfectionist on the Beach	p. 48
Atlantic Wind	p. 51
A Friendship Enters Phase II	p. 54
A Kiss	p. 56
Husband, Not at Home	p. 58
Worked Late on a Tuesday Night	p. 60
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