Caroline Leavitt's novels include: Girls In Trouble, Coming Back To Me, Living Other Lives, Into Thin Air, Family, Jealousies, Lifelines and Meeting Rozzy Halfway. Various titles were optioned for film, translated into different languages, and condensed in magazines.Her essays, stories and articles have appeared in Salon, Psychology Today, Cookie, New York Magazine, Parenting, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, Parents, Redbook, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and New Woman, as well in numerous anthologies.
Leavitt's new novel is Pictures of You.
Earlier this month I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:
The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein popped in my door and though I know you can’t tell a book by its cover, this cover image haunted me so much, that I was sure that what was inside was going to be asVisit Caroline Leavitt's website and blog.spectacular as what was outside. A polite-looking little girl stands with her back towards us, the grass green as any suburb. And, of course, there is that title! I wanted to read Braunstein because her novel is really about all my favorite themes: reinvention, running away, vanishing into another life, all issues that circle like a hamster wheel in my head. For me, the only drawback is that sometimes, the writing of this book almost overshadows the story. Still, Braunstein’s writing zips and glints and is positively brilliant, and if the various stories she tells aren’t always holding completely together for me, I’m hooked enough and patient enough to wait and see what final alchemy she does.
The Page 69 Test: Pictures of You.
My Book, the Movie: Pictures of You.
--Marshal Zeringue
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