My Sister from the Black Lagoon
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My Sister from the Black Lagoon by Laurie Fox
Featuring gorgeous prose, unflinching honesty, sharp wit and images that burn into the mind and heart, this story of growing up with a mentally ill sibling offers a profoundly affecting autobiographical novel written in the tradItion of the bestselling THE LIARS' CLUB by Mary Karr (PICADOR).
Valerie Frankel The New York Times Book Review Fox's prose is beautiful..effective and stirring.
Beth Witrogen McLeod San Francisco Examiner Hypnotic, darkly humorous.
Publishers Weekly, starred review A triumph of storytelling verve, dark humor, and unabashed candor.
Margaria Fichtner The Miami Herald [A] remarkable, almost aggressively vibrant blend of fiction and memoir.
Jan Winburn The Baltimore Sun Achingly honest and surprisingly funny...heartrending.
Elisabeth Sherwin Book Page Laurie Fox has managed to turn what could have been a harrowing and depressing autobiographical novel into a moving and funny story.
Beth Witrogen McLeod San Francisco Examiner Hypnotic, darkly humorous.
Publishers Weekly, starred review A triumph of storytelling verve, dark humor, and unabashed candor.
Margaria Fichtner The Miami Herald [A] remarkable, almost aggressively vibrant blend of fiction and memoir.
Jan Winburn The Baltimore Sun Achingly honest and surprisingly funny...heartrending.
Elisabeth Sherwin Book Page Laurie Fox has managed to turn what could have been a harrowing and depressing autobiographical novel into a moving and funny story.
Laurie Fox is the author of the autobiographical novel, My Sister from the Black Lagoon, The Lost Girls, and the interactive poetry book, Sexy Hieroglyphics. She has also published two chapbooks, Sweeping Beauty and I Love Walt, and her poetry has been included in several literary journals. A graduate of the University of California Santa Cruz, Laurie has written and performed in dozens of plays and performance artworks. A former bookseller of both new and antiquarian books, Laurie was also a long-time creative writing teacher and works in publishing. A native of Los Angeles, Laurie resides in Berkeley, CA, where she lived in author Philip K. Dick’s teenage home for seventeen years and still dreams of electric sheep!
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780684855387 |
| ISBN 10 | 0684855380 |
| Title | My Sister from the Black Lagoon |
| Author | Laurie Fox |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2000-06-19 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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