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From: Shpatron_at_aol.com
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:17:35 -0400 (EDT)
I read this powerful novel in manuscript and, like Elizabeth, was 'blown away' by it. There is an economy of language, as if each word has been distilled down to its essence, that makes the story very intense and compelling.
Susan Patron
In a message dated 4/9/2014 9:28:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, lizmys_at_aol.com writes:
New Novel in Verse: Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling by Lucy Frank, Just wanted to alert everybody to the publication this August of Lucy Frank ’s wonderful novel, written entirely in verse. Frank won the Phyllis Naylor Reynolds PEN AMERICAN Working Writers Fellowship for this novel in 2011. It follows the unfolding friendship between two very different teenage girls who share a hospital room and an illness. I had the great joy of hearing parts of this novel read aloud as part of a
writers group with Patty Lakin, Roxanne Orgill and Erica Tamar. I was quite literally ‘blown away,’ not words I use often. The poems allow both girls to have a voice that is both funny and vulnerable – and exposes how we all feel about getting sick, being frightened, and perhaps most important as Frank herself says, “how do you keep on laughing. How can you remember when things feel really bad, that it won’t stay that way, and that life will be happy again.” Look for it in August, published by Schwartz and Wade, an imprint at Random House. Elizabeth Levy Author: My Life as A Fifth Grade Comedian, and many other novels, including the upcoming Amber Brown Horses Around with Bruce Coville.
_www.elizabethlevy.com_ (http://www.elizabethlevy.com/)
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Received on Wed 09 Apr 2014 12:17:56 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:17:35 -0400 (EDT)
I read this powerful novel in manuscript and, like Elizabeth, was 'blown away' by it. There is an economy of language, as if each word has been distilled down to its essence, that makes the story very intense and compelling.
Susan Patron
In a message dated 4/9/2014 9:28:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, lizmys_at_aol.com writes:
New Novel in Verse: Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling by Lucy Frank, Just wanted to alert everybody to the publication this August of Lucy Frank ’s wonderful novel, written entirely in verse. Frank won the Phyllis Naylor Reynolds PEN AMERICAN Working Writers Fellowship for this novel in 2011. It follows the unfolding friendship between two very different teenage girls who share a hospital room and an illness. I had the great joy of hearing parts of this novel read aloud as part of a
writers group with Patty Lakin, Roxanne Orgill and Erica Tamar. I was quite literally ‘blown away,’ not words I use often. The poems allow both girls to have a voice that is both funny and vulnerable – and exposes how we all feel about getting sick, being frightened, and perhaps most important as Frank herself says, “how do you keep on laughing. How can you remember when things feel really bad, that it won’t stay that way, and that life will be happy again.” Look for it in August, published by Schwartz and Wade, an imprint at Random House. Elizabeth Levy Author: My Life as A Fifth Grade Comedian, and many other novels, including the upcoming Amber Brown Horses Around with Bruce Coville.
_www.elizabethlevy.com_ (http://www.elizabethlevy.com/)
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