Buy new:
-22% $14.80
FREE delivery Friday, May 17 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35
Ships from: Amazon.com
Sold by: Amazon.com
$14.80 with 22 percent savings
List Price: $18.95

The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. Except for books, Amazon will display a List Price if the product was purchased by customers on Amazon or offered by other retailers at or above the List Price in at least the past 90 days. List prices may not necessarily reflect the product's prevailing market price.
Learn more
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns
FREE delivery Friday, May 17 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35. Order within 13 hrs 17 mins
In Stock
$$14.80 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$14.80
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Ships from
Amazon.com
Ships from
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Returns
30-day easy returns
30-day easy returns
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Returns
30-day easy returns
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Payment
Secure transaction
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Payment
Secure transaction
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
$9.40
May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less See less
FREE delivery May 20 - 24. Details
Or fastest delivery May 14 - 17. Details
Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
$$14.80 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$14.80
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
Ships from and sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta.
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Follow the author

Lisa L. Sellge
+ Follow
More books from this author
Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

Narrow Girls on a Blue Profound Stage Paperback – April 3, 2022

by Lisa L. Sellge (Author)
5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
See all formats and editions
{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$14.80","priceAmount":14.80,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"14","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"80","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"mXphW9fOZVqVG2ivtWDRDbjR%2BRShAqpBYMHFVQRzRJIX9MIlKWKhbBFWiL2mvgwTjxKtA0tT37vVHVqmYbzPgSm1G5787JYHVqnCW3JHRwAn7dYqfzclEzOuOtxlzLewZm9OB0qc97yAxy3MeBlOdA%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$9.40","priceAmount":9.40,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"9","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"40","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"mXphW9fOZVqVG2ivtWDRDbjR%2BRShAqpB76eB2KIIKDqBpxWgBTB3g2r0xR%2FJ9PXGyAMpKETZpzMc9%2BMAKY%2FnbtyUa48PGakFfdX8zcervxA9KGnwNbPSdYb6Cwx3moQOyoyWEDyTukvfKJr9LA0MDqgEWPyzWja2drnmpe9Sg6Y%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

A novel about obsession, endurance, and chasing the impossible.

CALIFORNIA, 1983. Anneliese is a young ballerina performing with a troupe of dancers ten years her senior. Immersed in new freedom, she is enchanted with Rebecca, the seamstress and costumer for the company. Anneliese's budding attraction to Rebecca surprises and confuses her, but clarity dawns when Rebecca flirts back.

Narrow Girls on a Blue Profound Stage is a novel about identity, obsession, and finally, acceptance. Forging a painful path to awareness, Anneliese gains perspective in the world of performing arts, the dynamics of family, and the passionate personalities whose wild natures match her own.

"In Narrow Girls on a Blue Profound Stage, Lisa Sellge delivers the story of a young dancer's first experience with love within the intriguing atmosphere of a hand-to-mouth ballet theatre. The San Onofre nuclear power plant protests, the Crosby, Stills and Nash concerts, and most of all, the girl who turns into a woman when she leaves it all behind, will capture your heart. A memorable book, highly recommended." ~Jo-Ann Mapson, author of Owen's Daughter, Hank & Chloe and other books
Read more Read less
Previous page
  1. Print length
    224 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    April 3, 2022
  4. Dimensions
    5.98 x 0.56 x 9.02 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1458306461
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1458306463
  7. See all details
Next page
The Amazon Book Review
The Amazon Book Review
Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.

Editorial Reviews

Review


"In Narrow Girls on a Blue Profound Stage, Lisa Sellge delivers the story of a young dancer's first experience with love within the intriguing atmosphere of a hand-to-mouth ballet theatre. The San Onofre nuclear power plant protests, the Crosby, Stills and Nash concerts, and most of all, the girl who turns into a woman when she leaves it all behind, will capture your heart. A memorable book, highly recommended." ~Jo-Ann Mapson, author of Owen's Daughter, Hank & Chloe and other books

From the Back Cover

A book of longing, endurance, and chasing the impossible.
Narrow Girls on a Blue Profound Stagefollows a young ballerina's obsession, and sometimes reckless passion, for her art and her unlikely lover. Focusing on three transformative years, Narrow Girls traces the alchemy of sisterhood, first love, and coming-of-age on the stage.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lulu.com (April 3, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1458306461
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1458306463
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.56 x 9.02 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Lisa L. Sellge

Lisa L. Sellge

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Lisa Sellge wrote Narrow Girls on a Blue Profound Stage (originally titled The Seamstress) as her Creative Nonfiction thesis at the University of Alaska, but she really began writing the book as she experienced it in the pages of her journals in the early 1980s. Lisa’s creative writing has appeared in Atticus Review, Brevity Blog, 3rd Street Beach Reads Volumes 1 & 2, and Literally Literary.

She is currently writing her second work of autofiction that picks up where Narrow Girls left off. She lives in Washington where she works as a content editor, and photographs birds with the same level of obsession she brought to ballet. Narrow Girls on a Blue Profound Stage is her first novel.

Customer reviews

5 out of 5 stars
5 out of 5
13 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Steph M
5.0 out of 5 stars Intensely personal, captivating memoir
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2022
Verified Purchase
I have met the author, so I wanted to read the book despite the genre being well outside my wheelhouse (I am a retired white dude.) What a delightful surprise this book is! It has Universal themes of first love, the transition from adolescence into adulthood, and the narrator facing both beauty and danger in the world. I immediately drew a parallel to Daniel James Brown's best-seller "The Boys in the Boat" in that in both cases the authors were able to present a extended, captivating account of something (rowing and ballet, respectively) that I initially imagined would quickly become tiresome, but which ultimately proved to be captivating due to the talent of the authors. Take a chance on this book, I doubt you'll regret it.
Helpful
 Report
Victoria
5.0 out of 5 stars Somehow Both Nostalgic and Beautifully Present
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2022
Verified Purchase
Narrow Girls on a Blue Profound Stage has a rare atmosphere about it, a dreamy one that seems to both exist in the past it describes while also looking back at it with a quiet clarity. According to the author blurb the book is based on her own childhood journals, and that can 100% be felt in the loose, almost vignette-like plot structure and the strength and aching immediacy of the emotions conveyed here. The book dives deeply into one young woman's microcosm of the ballet world, but it also touches on a host of things you don't need to love ballet to understand and empathize with on a 'profound' level: first love, belonging, independence, vulnerability, and those struggles with identity when you barely know what of your self to label, much less what those labels might (or might not) be. This was one of the most unique and deeply personal books I've read in a long time.
Helpful
 Report
Allison Lane
5.0 out of 5 stars Poignant. Searing. Tender. I love this book.
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2022
Verified Purchase
I'm inspired by the author's raw reveal of the potent and poignant moments that made her... and reminded of the moments that make me. We are all on our way. Her recounting of a love affair that took years to toast and kindle... that the affair grew from her teenagehood at a time when she should have been protected but did indeed fall in love. I want to jump in and protect her little 15yo self from the very adult world of a ballet company - yet I also want to see her dance. I actually googled ballerina feet after she commented about the pride of her tortured toes and jacked up toe-knuckles. (gag me please, b/c I have a foot fetish). It was a lot, but dang, how she yields just a few words to evoke so much pain and tenderness (physical and emotional) in a ballet company ... I loved it.
Helpful
 Report
Pearce
5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating look behind the curtain
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2022
Verified Purchase
Narrow Girls is one of the rare books able to communicate to an outsider the passion in an interest truly held by only a few, and to bring about the wonderful feeling of perspective you get when a piece of art reminds you just how much life is going on around you all the time in all the places you never thought to look. Narrow Girls reminded me how big the world is, and I consider that one of the greatest gifts that literature, particularly nonfiction, can provide.
Helpful
 Report
Andrea
5.0 out of 5 stars Deep Emotions Beautifully Shared
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2022
Verified Purchase
Lisa Sellge shares of herself in this intense and emotional book. "Narrow Girls on a Profound Blue Stage" was captivating and kept me turning the pages one after another until I had read the entire book in one sitting. The prose is beautiful and the subject matter intense. Ballet provides the background to this passionate coming-of-age story with deep connections. If you've ever felt deeply, ever connected to another human in a profound way, this book will resonate with you. I can't wait for her next book!
Helpful
 Report
Monica
5.0 out of 5 stars We have all been there. The author had the courage to tell her story. Brava.
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2022
Verified Purchase
Forbidden Love. Coming-of-Age. Passion. This masterful memoir broke my heart as the author so lyrically took us on her painful journey exploring her sexuality as a 15-year-old ballerina trying to grow up. Her voice was authentic and raw, vulnerable and naive. We all have stories in our past that have defined us. Not many have the courage to tell their stories, but author Lisa Sellge captured my heart with this searing memoir. I can't wait to read her next book.
Helpful
 Report
Ann K. Howley
5.0 out of 5 stars Poignant and thought-provoking
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2022
Narrow Girls on a Blue Profound Stage is a coming-of-age story that highlights a young ballerina’s first forbidden love within the insular world of a youth ballet company. Author Lisa Sellge beautifully captures the innocence and vulnerability of a girl who, like many teens, is impatient and eager to grow up and strains against her parents, particularly her mother, who worries, but does not know how much her influence is slipping away. Young Annaliese is too naïve to sort out her confused feelings or to truly understand her moral dilemma, but thankfully some of the adult characters within her dance world recognize the danger and try to protect her.

The best books ignite my empathy and make me think about situations I have not experienced. When I finished reading Narrow Girls on a Blue Profound Stage, I ached for Annaliese and considered it a sacred honor to hold her secrets in my heart.
Helpful
 Report
Cathryn V
5.0 out of 5 stars Intimate tale and peek into the world of ballet
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2022
Lisa Sellge's "Narrow Girls on a Blue Profound Stage" begins with 15 yr old Annaliese in a dance community of worldly twenty-somethings. She can't wait to grow up. I like the inner workings of the girl's mind and heart, her experiences and her personal growth. There is a bit of moral dilemma in this story which I won't spoil the reader's experience with. Well written and evocative.
Helpful
 Report