Description: The author of the highly acclaimed and bestselling "The Madonnas of Leningrad" returns with a collection of stories by turns tender, comic, and devastating.
Brief description:
Debra Dean is the bestselling author of I Wake Up Barking and four other critically acclaimed books that have been published in twenty-one languages. Her debut novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad, was a New York Times Editors' Choice, a #1 Booksense Pick, a Booklist Top Ten Novel, and an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year. Debra lives in Miami and is on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University.
Review Quotes:
"An unforgettable story of love, survival, and the power of imagination in the most tragic of circumstances. Elegant and poetic, the rare kind of book that you want to keep but you have to share." - Isabel Allende, in praise of THE MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD
"Rare is the novel that creates that blissful forgot-you-were-reading experience. This sort of transcendence is rare still when the novel in question is an author's debut, but that is precisely what Debra Dean has achieved with her image-rich book." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in praise of THE MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD
"Dean is a marvelous chameleon of a writer, adapting, reflecting, revealing multiple, generous worlds with perceptiveness, humor and light." - A. Manette Ansay, author of Blue Water and Vinegar Hill
"An attractive wry humor ripples through this collection of ten stories . . . Beautifully calibrated . . . Dean has a fine appreciation for the way chance can save or doom careers and marriages. More, please." - Kirkus Reviews
"A humorous collection . . . Readers will certainly forget themselves in these sparkling stories, pausing over small, strange moments that change entire lives." - Publishers Weekly