Dear Edna Sloane by Amy Shearn – April 30 (Red Hen Press)
“I’ve long been an ardent, near-obsessive fan of Amy Shearn’s sophisticated, hilarious, big-hearted fiction, and with Dear Edna Sloane, she once again knocks it out of the park. This charming, compulsively readable novel–which I read in one sitting, laughing out loud every few minutes–brilliantly satirizes the literary world in a manner that reminded me, somehow, of both Laurie Colwin and Candace Bushnell, Curtis Sittenfeld and, more than any other writer, Taffy Brodesser-Akner. But what fuels this tour de force–aside from Shearn’s pitch-perfect tone and precise, urgent sentences–are her complex, lovable characters and their emotionally resonant thoughts and ideas. I wanted to live inside this book forever.” –Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year