Ashley Wurzbacher

Sep 10, 2023 | writersdigest.com | Ashley Wurzbacher

I’ve always valued research as a writing tool, a way of getting outside my own experience. As Andrea Barrett writes, research is “a way of sinking into the hearts and minds of our characters.”[i] For my short stories, I’ve researched professional mermaiding, women’s bodybuilding, ballet, and more, plunging myself into the experiences, vocabularies, and central questions that define these activities in order to inhabit as fully as possible the characters who do them.

Aug 9, 2023 | lithub.com | Ashley Wurzbacher

I began writing How to Care for a Human Girl not long after Texas senator Wendy Davis’s thirteen-hour filibuster to block an anti-abortion bill that would have shut down 37 of Texas’s forty-two clinics. I was living in Houston, studying writing and women’s studies, and reproductive justice and the craft of fiction lived side by side at the front of my mind.

Aug 2, 2023 | redcarpetcrash.com | Ashley Wurzbacher

Home > Free Books > Free Giveways > Win A Copy Of The Book ‘How To Care For A Human Girl: A Novel’ By Ashley Wurzbacher August 2, 20232023-08-02T14:53:05-05:00 Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh, quietly obtains an abortion without telling her husband, but the secret causes turmoil in her already shaky marriage. Back home in rural Pennsylvania,...

Jun 29, 2023 | offtheshelf.com | Jana Li |Sharon Van Meter |Maddie Nelson |Ashley Wurzbacher

|+| Add to Your Shelf How to Care for a Human Girl Jada and Maddy are estranged sisters who come together after finding themselves unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. The former pursues a quiet abortion while the latter starts having qualms about getting the same procedure done and decides to reconnect with Jada first before making any life-altering decisions.

Apr 30, 2023 | simonandschuster.com | Ashley Wurzbacher

About The Book From “a writer at the top of her game” (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies.