![]() ![]() It’s a schematic setup - strait-laced suburbanites versus groovy artists - but this book works because it’s got a great protagonist. When a rock star and his singer-actress wife come to stay for intensive addiction therapy, Mary Jane learns some new words and concepts. Cone, is a psychiatrist and a Jew - “another breed of human,” as Mary Jane’s father explains. Cone, doesn’t wear a bra, and her father, Dr. Before dinner, her father says grace, giving thanks for “his wonderful wife and obedient child.” But the 14-year-old takes a summer job as a nanny for a different sort of family in Jessica Anya Blau’s delightful novel. It’s 1975, and Mary Jane Dillard is growing up in a perfectly neat house in Baltimore’s Roland Park neighborhood with a picture of President Ford hanging on the wall. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She’s confident in her abilities as a scientist and yet so unsure of herself as a woman. Samantha, with her blue eyes and brilliant mind, takes him by surprise. Under orders to do whatever he must to keep a dangerous weapon from falling into enemy hands, he’s prepared for every scenario-except one. That’s why he’s been tapped to lead this mission. He’s used to the cold and constant darkness. The only man who can keep her alive… Thor served as an elite soldier in Afghanistan and spent two years as part of a Danish spec-ops unit patrolling sea ice in the Arctic. ![]() But when she hears what’s at stake, she agrees to help and is forced to put her trust in Thor Isaksen, the tall, broad-shouldered Dane who leads the Cobra team. As a scientist, she has always been suspicious of the military, and flying across Antarctica in austral winter is more like suicide than a rescue mission. She hasn’t begun to face her loss when men from Cobra International Security arrive to recover sensitive military components from a crashed satellite-and ask her to come with them. ![]() Samantha Park’s life is shaken when her best friend and research partner dies barely two months into their eight-month stretch at the South Pole. ![]() ![]() During her seven-year spell in New York, Siobhan was named one of the "top 100 Irish-Americans" by Irish-America Magazine and AerLingus, for her global anti-censorship work. Her work here included founding and leading the Rushdie Defense Committee USA and traveling to Indonesia and Guatemala to investigate local human rights conditions for writers. She went on to be Program Director of PEN American Center's Freedom-to-Write Committee in New York City. ![]() After a short stint in publishing, she joined the writer's organization PEN, initially as a researcher for its Writers in Prison Committee. She attended a Catholic grammar school in south London and then gained a degree in Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. ![]() She spent much of her youth visiting the family cottage in Aglish, County Waterford and later the family home in Wicklow Town. ![]() ![]() Siobhan Dowd was born to Irish parents and brought up in London. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The poem makes reference to this Sandra Bland dash cam video. "Conjecture on the Stained Glass Image of White Christ at Ebenezer Baptist Church" was incited by this image at the historic Atlanta, GA, house of worship formerly pastored by Dr. ![]() "Blue Faces" was triggered by the Kendrick Lamar song bearing the same title, as well as the legendary Roots music video for "What They Do." To request a review copy, please be in touch with Leila Meglio at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. If you'd like a printed copy, be in touch! REVIEWSĬopies of Silencer are available for those interested in writing a review or conducting an interview. Please note: this is a digital copy of the EP that we are distributing for Silencer, and it only includes three of the six poems. "For a while I was worried that I was being silenced, and so, as a kind of therapy, I began writing 'silencers'-poems that address gun violence and police brutality against African Americans in the news, without specifically invoking case details."įlip through the Digital EP by clicking on the image below, or download a PDF here. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her plot is ingenious and fresh, her dialogue breezy, bright, witty, and gutsy. "Los Angeles Times Book Review"Įvanovich's writing is smooth, clever and laugh-aloud. "USA Today"Įvanovich is funny and ceaselessy inventive. ![]() Her plot is ingenious and fresh, her dialogue breezy, bright, witty, and gutsy.Ĭomes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air.Goes down like a tall, cool, drink. Her plot is ingenious and fresh, her dialogue breezy, bright, witty, and gutsy."Ĭomes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air.Goes down like a tall, cool, drink.Įvanovich is funny and ceaselessy inventive.Įvanovich's writing is smooth, clever and laugh-aloud. "Evanovich's writing is smooth, clever and laugh-aloud. "Evanovich is funny and ceaselessy inventive." "Snappily written, fast paced and witty." ![]() "Comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air.Goes down like a tall, cool, drink." ![]() |