Nancy Pearl is known as “America’s Librarian.” She speaks about the pleasures of reading at library conferences, to literacy organizations and community groups throughout the world and comments on books regularly on NPR’s Morning Edition. Born and raised in Detroit, she received her master’s degree in library science in 1967 from the University of Michigan. She also received an MA in history from Oklahoma State University in 1977. Among her many honors and awards are the 2011 Librarian of the Year Award from Library Journal; and the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. She also hosts a monthly television show, Book Lust with Nancy Pearl. She lives in Seattle with her husband.
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GEORGE AND LIZZIE is a fresh, sweet, funny, and completely charming
love story between two people, two families, and two unlikely paths
in life, which somehow find their way to each other. To read this
novel is to see family, love, and life in a new light.
*Lisa Scottoline, #1 New York Times bestselling author*
As sparkling as Prosecco, as jubilantly quirky and inventive a love
story as you could ever want, and a jigsaw puzzle you never want to
finish. If I could marry a novel, this wise, witty and rapturously
inventive book would be it.
*Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of CRUEL
BEAUTIFUL WORLD and PICTURES OF YOU*
Nancy Pearl understands the desperate, confused, needy heart that
beats under the surface of even the most dysfunctional of
relationships, and exposes it with wit and genuine love. Oh,
and you’ll never think about football the same way again.
*Katherine Heiny, author of SINGLE, CAREFREE, MELLOW and STANDARD
DEVIATIONS*
GEORGE AND LIZZIE overflows with humor and heart, with quirks and
eccentricities, with unforgettable characters….Her story daringly
and playfully jumbles time and convention, gathering heft and humor
as it unfolds. The end result is an irresistible debut by a born
storyteller.
*Jim Lynch, author of Before the Wind*
Read GEORGE AND LIZZIE. This smart novel has a smashing
premise, an engaging cast of characters, and a voice that propels
you from first page to last with its wit, insight into secrets,
families, and football, and its unrelenting energy.
*Stephen McCauley, author of THE OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION and MY
EX-LIFE*
GEORGE AND LIZZIE is an unusual story about a marriage, except that
really it’s a story about growing up, except that really it’s a
story about a cast of uncommon, bewitching characters I could have
happily read about for a month. It’s smart, funny, warmly sketched,
cleverly put together, engagingly told, and sums to something
wonderful and unexpected. I will be recommending it unrelentingly
to everyone I know.
*Laurie Frankel, author of THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS*
Nancy Pearl has long been a bright light in the literary world—what
a delight to bask in the glow of her debut novel. GEORGE AND LIZZIE
is a richly absorbing portrait of a perfectly imperfect marriage; a
wryly observed story of family, love, and absurdity; and a deft
consideration of the moments that shadow and shape our lives, and
just might take on lives of their own.
*Amy Poeppel, author of SMALL ADMISSIONS*
Pearl dramatizes a complicated and deeply illuminating union of
opposites and conducts profound inquiries into the self, family,
empathy, and love. The result is a charming, edgy, and many faceted
novel of penetrating humor and resonant insight.
*Booklist (starred review)*
[A]n homage to true love, painful childhood experiences, and
emotional scars that last a lifetime. It’s a story of forgiveness,
especially for one’s self….Extraordinary.
*Washington Post*
With eccentric characters, relationship drama, and a vivid sense of
place, this Anne Tyler-esque debut novel is sure to interest and
please Pearl’s many fans.
*Library Journal*
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