PositiveBookreporter... a welcome departure from Korelitz’s usual, more thriller-skewing fare ... Navigating the ebbs and flows of one privileged New York City family might not seem relatable to some, but in the capable hands of Korelitz, we see how she carefully sculpts her characters and their motivations, making us anxiously turn those pages ... Fans of complex family dramas like Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections or Claire Messud’s The Emperor\'s Children will relish this engrossing read, either relating to the Oppenheimers or thanking your lucky stars that you’re not them.
Jennifer Close
PositiveBookreporter... deftly handles the subjects of family, politics and family politics in a charming and relatable way. Anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant will immediately understand the title ... Fans of Close’s previous books as well as novels like Jonathan Tropper’s This is Where I Leave You, will enjoy this family chronicle of life’s ups and downs, which are made all the better when the burdens are shared with loved ones.
Sylvia Plath
PositiveBookreporter\"This emblematic tale packs a punch in its 60 short pages, made all the more powerful by the knowledge of Plath’s troubled marriage and eventual suicide. Combining classic themes of her later work with a smattering of Shirley Jackson and a touch of Margaret Atwood, and being published in this #metoo and Handmaid’s Tale climate, the story feels as relevant today as the day it was written.\
Melanie Benjamin
PositiveBookreporter.comNew York Times bestselling author Melanie Benjamin has taken careful notice of her subject’s recipe in her latest novel, The Girls in the Picture, about the long friendship and collaboration between silver screen star Mary Pickford and famed screenwriter Frances Marion ...vividly chronicles an exciting and not widely known era in Hollywood’s history ... But much like their female counterparts today, these ladies [Pickford and Marion] quickly learned that there was a price to pay for so much power and freedom. In addition to being an engrossing and enlightening read, the book offers great comfort of the things women (or any dreamer) can accomplish if they first possess the desire to create and then the will to see it through.
