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Caroline Leavitt is the author of Meeting Rozzy Halfway, Lifelines, Jealousies, Family, Into Thin Air, Living Other Lives, and Coming Back to Me. Various titles were optioned for film and condensed in magazines. She won first prize in Redbook magazine’s Young Writers Contest in 1978 for her short story "Meeting Rozzy Halfway," which grew into the novel. The recipient of a 1990 New York Foundation of the Arts Award for Fiction for Into Thin Air, she was also a judge for the 1990 Fiction Competition for the Writers Voice Awards in New York City. Leavitt lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, with her husband, the writer Jeff Tamarkin, and their four-year-old son, Max.
Coming Back to Me
It can take a long time to build up a life, and only moments to destroy it. Gary and Molly met in the way couples do: after a long haul of being single, quickly becoming soulmates and rejoicing in that fact. Beautiful, red-haired Molly ignites a fire in Gary and he eases the pain she feels about her past. Starting a family is something they both want badly to do, and with great joy, Molly finds herself pregnant. It is when she leaves for the hospital that things start to go wrong. Only a few weeks later, alone with a newborn and a mountain of medical bills he has no means to pay for, Gary must call on Molly's long estranged sister Suzanne to help. From Sue Miller to Elizabeth Berg, bestelling authors have tackled the challenges of love and marriage. Caroline Leavitt claims the turf in her own exciting way, twisting and turning a medical nightmare into an opportunity for redemption and hope.
Caroline Leavitt's Summer Reading List
Life at these Speeds
by Jeremy Jackson
A friend of mine can't stop raving about this book about a tightly wound high school athlete who comes undone after a car crash. Since the novel I'm writing now also involves a crash, I'm more than curious to read this and see what I think myself.
The Year of Ice
by Brian Malloy
This has been garnering up stellar reviews and is another first novel (I love first novels). It's about love, loss and the ways families work (another favorite theme of mine), so how can I resist this one?
The Feline Mystique: On the Mysterious Connection Between Women and Cats
by Clea Simon
Simons' work is always terrific (Fatherless Women was an astonishing book about how the kind of fathers we have affects both the kinds of relationships we have and our own self-image.) This newest book dips into history, science, literature and personal stories to explore the ongoing relationships between women and their feline friends.
Flesh Tones
by M.J. Rose
I've long been a fan of Rose's but I can't say enough about this book, a rare hybrid of sublime literary novel, psychological thriller, character study, and a page-turner to boot. What more could you want from a summer read? Or a great read for any season?
The Last Girls
by Lee Smith
Due out in early fall (which means it will probably hit the stores in August, I hope), this is another book topping my list. I've loved Lee Smith since her sublime Oral History and cannot wait for this story of four women on a river trip, covering real and emotional ground as they examine their lives from adolescence up into middle age.
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