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After following the advice from a manual called “How to Meet and Marry Mr Right”, Jane learns that in love there is neither pattern nor promise. This is a funny collection of connected stories and a portrait of Jane, a woman manoeuvring her way through love, sex and relationships.

Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that’s saying much–since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she’s trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank’s heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in “The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine”: “I’d been a rising star at H—– until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane.”

Bank’s first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In “The Floating House,” Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can’t stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. “I’m like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive,” she realizes–one of several thousand of Bank’s ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has “nothing to do with peace.” Bank’s much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. –Kerry Fried

The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing

The Tahiti Fishing/Hunting Inflatable Kayak is durable, reliable, comfortable and portable. Measuring 10 Feet9 Inch long by 2 Feet4 Inch wide, the Tahiti holds two people (up to 400 pounds total) in built-in inflatable seats. The Kayak is durably constructed of heavy-duty 26-gauge PVC, with two air chambers for security and a tubular I-beam floor for stability. The Kayak is camo-colored for low visibility while hunting. It includes two spray covers for protection, and has an optional directional skeg for maximum control. Guaranteed not to leak, thanks to Sevylor Feets exclusive Airtight System, the kayak Feets Double-Lock Valves prevent accidental air loss and ensure quick, easy inflation and deflation. NMMA certified.

Sevylor Tahiti Fishing/Hunting Inflatable Kayak

The Casio Forester moon phase fishing watch is the perfect timepiece for avid anglers, with a stylish design well suited for both land and sea wear. In addition to the automatic time, day, month and date displays, this convenient digital watch also indicates the best times to fish based on the moon’s phase, latitude and longitude. The watch displays the moon’s age, phase and time, as well as sunrise and sunset information, for the current or designated day. A handy vibration alert can be used with the daily alarm, hourly time signal, or fishing timer so as not to disturb the quiet on the water. The watch also offers a time memo, a 1/100 second stopwatch, and five daily alarm settings. An automatic electro-luminescent backlight with afterglow makes the display easy to read at any time, and the water-ready nylon band comes with a buckle clasp. The case is made from durable polyurethane resin, the bezel is resin and the watch is water resistant up to 330 feet (100 meters). This watch offers a battery life of approximately five years.

Casio Men’s PAS400B-5V Pathfinder Forester Fishing Moon Phase Watch