Awarded the 2006 Meridian Editor's Fiction Prize, "Cinderella She was Not" is short, but powerful; tough, but uncompromisingly honest. The observations of Thurber's narrator Raymond will remain in the mind long after reading this "terse, edgy, darkly humorous' novelette about love and marriage and infidelity from the audacious author of Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel

"My first wife, Alice Porter-Masterson, had two lovely sisters, both ten times prettier than her. "You married the ugly duckling," my new sisters-in-law liked to tease. "You should have married one of us, Raymond.""