<i><b>The Girls&#39; Guide to Hunting and Fishing</b></i>&nbsp;is a 1999 collection of linked short stories by&nbsp;Melissa Bank. The stories follow the main character Jane Rosenal, starting with her life at age 14.<br /><i>The Girls&#39; Guide to Hunting And Fishing</i>&nbsp;spent 16 weeks on&nbsp;<i>The New York Times</i>&nbsp;Best Seller list. It was a bestseller in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The&nbsp;<i>Los Angeles Times</i>&nbsp;wrote, &quot;Bank writes like&nbsp;John Cheever, but funnier.&quot;&nbsp;<i>Newsweek</i>&nbsp;critic Yahlin Chang wrote, &quot;Bank draws exquisite portraits of loneliness, and she can do it in a sentence.&quot; Others placed Bank in the school of restraint exemplified by&nbsp;Hemingway&nbsp;and&nbsp;Raymond Carver.