Published Reviews

New York Times Book Review reviews Music Through the Floor by Eric Puchner How exhilarating to come across a young writer as technically gifted and emotionally insightful as Eric Puchner…The nine stories in his debut collection are…... Read More »	http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authors/32/725/critical_praise.html reviews Flash House by Aimee Liu "Set in tumultuous post-WWII Asia, Liu's third novel is an espionage thriller that traces a woman's efforts to find her husband after he disappears into the... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Cloud Mountain by Aimee Liu Warner Books, which has been highly successful with such bittersweet romances as Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County and Nicholas Sparks's The... Read More »	The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Vol. 297 No. 18, pp. 1955-2044 reviews Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders by Aimee Liu With uninhibited truthfulness Aimee Liu reveals incidents in her own life which propelled her into anorexia... She believes the greatest asset any of us possess is... Read More »
PsycCRITIQUES Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books reviews Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders by Aimee Liu Liu's book, Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders, immediately grabbed our attention because it focuses on life after a person overcomes an eating... Read More »	For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance Story Circle Book Reviews reviews For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance by Aimee Liu For Keeps is not an easy book to read. It is not about pretty women with perfect bodies who find easy acceptance in a beauty-obsessed culture. No. It is an... Read More »
Los Angeles Times reviews It's My F---king Birthday by Merrill Markoe "Funny in a sly, true, painful way." Read More »	The New York Times reviews What the Dogs Have Taught Me by Merrill Markoe Merrill Markoe has a keen eye for the little lunacies of modern living. Hers is a special talent, desperately needed these days. Read More »
Los Angeles Times reviews Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel by Merrill Markoe There was a time when Merrill Markoe worried that Stupid Pet Tricks, the goofy segment she created for “Late Night With David Letterman,” would be the sum total of... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Dream of the Blue Room by Michelle Richmond A complex and nimbly fashioned first novel. Read More »

The Girls From Ames Des Moines Register reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow The photographs reveal much about a lifelong relationship between 11 women. In the first, the tanned high school girls emit a joy for life in their playful group... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Dallas Morning News reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow The Girls From Ames is such a brilliantly conceived, unusually composed book that the most sensible place to begin is the beginning: how a male Wall Street Journal... Read More »
The Girls From Ames AMES TRIBUNE ARTICLE reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow “The Girls from Ames” is a book about friendship, a theme to which we can all relate. What makes this story more relevant is that it began in our own community,... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Penguin.com reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends who formed a special bond growing up in Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved to eight different states, yet managed... Read More »
Barnes and Noble online reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas Full of the magic, mystery, and full-bodied characters readers have come to expect of the best South American fiction, The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos is as... Read More »	Boston Review reviews Talking in the Dark by Laura Glen Louis Some years ago, Laura Glen Louis attended a talk by Grace Paley at which a member of the audience eagerly asked, "Ms. Paley, when are you going to write a novel... Read More »
AOL's Gadling Travel reviews The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India by Shelley Seale Author Shelley Seale’s discovery of this human tragedy led her life in a whole new direction, and it is this that gives the book its impetus. Besides her personal... Read More »	YouTube reviews How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage by Sascha Rothchild Dating in Miami can be a bit tough. Miami Beach native and author of How to Get Divorced by 30, Sascha Rothchild, gives us some friendly advice on how to take on... Read More »
Kim Hess Divorce Guru Turning Challenges into Triumphs reviews How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage by Sascha Rothchild Many people have told me I seem really cheery for a divorced person. Why wouldn’t I? Divorce has treated me well. It was being unhappily married that made me... Read More »	Amazon reviews Tales From Gundarland by Hank Quense This collection of stories is fun from beginning to end. Hank Quesne has a Pratchett-like gift for extracting humour from science fiction and fantasy settings and... Read More »