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Sarah Frey
Positive The Star Tribune ... [a] born saleswoman ... Her charisma and chutzpah leap off the page of this extended elevator pitch. It\'s easy to see why ABC-TV has expressed interest in producing her colorful story.
Cecelia Ahern
Positive The Star Tribune The 30 allegorical tales...offer inspiration in dealing with such travails as getting older in a sexist, ageist society or trying to juggle way too many responsibilities ...The stories, perhaps best read in small doses, contain wisdom, humor and warning ... Roar offers respite for the woman who was stressed by modern life.
Michael Knight
Rave St. Louis Post-Dispatch With evocative language and a true sense of place, Southerner Michael Knight combines a coming-of-age tale, a ghost story and a meditation on history in his engrossing latest novel ... Featuring clever plot twists, the colorful At Briarwood School for Girls takes the reader on a memorable ride.
Kristen Roupenian
Positive Minneapolis Star Tribune \"... evocative ... Roupenian deftly captures the #MeToo zeitgeist ... The remaining stories illustrate all manner of contemporary terrors. A standout is \'Look at Your Game, Girl,\' an update of Joyce Carol Oates’ 1966 caution against talking to strangers \'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\' Roupenian’s twisted imagination just may haunt your nightmares.\
Adriana Trigiani
Positive Minneapolis Star Tribune \"Adriana Trigiani offers a charming look at midcentury Italian-American family life and a humorous glimpse into the travails of celebrity ... A few scenes drag (a tawdry hotel encounter with an old crush, a long-winded deathbed confession). But Tony’s Wife shows the rewards and regrets of a long life, and offers the lesson that \'happiness is all about accepting what’s enough.\'\
Anna Pasternak
Positive The Minneapolis Star Tribune Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of rock star Russian poet and Doctor Zhivago author Boris Pasternak, suffered mightily for love ... His [Pasternak's] novel, 20 years in the making, was a 'long and heartfelt love letter' to Olga, who inspired the character of Lara, Zhivago’s lover ... Anna Pasternak, Boris’ great-niece, draws upon published works by Olga and Irina, interviews with since-deceased family members and correspondence unearthed in a HarperCollins vault in Glasgow to tell the engrossing story of Olga and Boris and Doctor Zhivago ... Pasternak offers an insightful, exhaustively researched and highly recommended portrait of an artist and his muse, as well as a horrifying look behind the old Iron Curtain.
Mary Louise Parker
Positive The Minneapolis Star Tribune ...imaginative and evocative ... Some of the most moving chapters relate to her beloved father, who died shortly after she procured a treat for him from 'Dear Mr. Oyster Picker.' She promised her father that she would keep writing, and we can be glad she did.