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Caroline Leavitt, a book columnist for The Boston Globe, is the author of seven previous novels. Her essays, articles and short stories have appeared in Salon, Redbook, McCall's, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, and more. She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with her husband, author Jeff Tamarkin, and their young son. Her new novel Girls In Trouble will be published by St. Martin's this December (ISBN 0312271220) and her last novel, Coming Back To Me (ISBN 0312305540) will be published in paperback this September.
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.
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Caroline Leavitt's Summer Reading List
The Book of Dead Birds
by Gayle Brandeis
A mother struggling with her past as a prostitute, a daughter struggling toward her future. Haunting, evocative, just gorgeously written --- and winner of the Bellwether prize.
Got A Revolution:The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane
by Jeff Tamarkin
Okay, I'm biased. This is my husband's book, but even if it wasn't, I'd still be enraptured. You don't have to be a fan to love this rollicking oral history of the times, the music, and the people.
The Probable Future
by Alice Hoffman
I am pushing this book into every pair of hands I can find. I love Hoffman, and this one, about three generations of gifted Sparrow women is superb. Magical, full of marvels, and Hoffman at her best.
Sheet Music
by M.J. Rose
No one else could put food, music, and sex all together so elegantly. A page-turning mystery, full of haunting grace notes about love and longing.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
I love all things strange, so why wouldn't I have this book on my to-be-read shelf for summer? Cannibalism, plastic surgery on cadavers, and lots more, all told in sprightly prose. I can't wait!
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