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The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs

Disciplines:
fiction
storytelling
comedy/humor
middle-grade

Summary

Matthew Dicks's 2015 middle-grade novel — about a woman who finally delivers the perfect comeback she failed to say decades ago — combining humor and emotional honesty.

Core Contribution

Demonstrates Dicks's narrative skills in fiction — The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs applies his storytelling principles (five-second moment, emotional truth) to middle-grade fiction.

Historical Influences

Moth storytelling Middle-grade fiction tradition

Intellectual Lineage

Matthew Dicks Roaring Brook Press

Allied Works

Storyworthy Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Storytelling-derived fiction

Intellectual Posterity

The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs

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