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Karen Parkman

Biography

Karen Parkman

Karen Parkman holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. THE JILLS has been supported by MacDowell and Yaddo fellowships, the Sozopol Fiction Seminars, and the Vermont Studio Center. Parkman’s stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Joyland and other outlets. She is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Karen Parkman

Books by Karen Parkman

by Karen Parkman - Fiction

Virginia is a Jill --- a cheerleader for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills --- living the life of her dreams: she spends her weekdays practicing, her weekends cheering, and her nights hopping between bars and clubs with her teammates, including the fearless, charismatic Jeanine, whose friendship has given Virginia confidence in spades and helped her forget her troubled past with her estranged sister, Laura. One Sunday, Jeanine fails to show up for a game, and calls and texts to her go unanswered. Virginia embarks on an investigation into Jeanine’s disappearance, aided by a network of Jills, ex-boyfriends, seedy fixtures of Buffalo’s criminal underground, and unexpected figures from her past. But as her search grows increasingly dangerous and spirals into obsession, disturbing questions about who Jeanine really was begin to emerge.