Caroline Leavitt's Reviews
Reviews of Caroline’s Work
May.07.2013
Published by Library Journal, Booklist, more
"Ava Lark, a divorced Jewish woman, and her 12-year-old son, Lewis, move into a WASPy 1950s Boston suburb only to be ostracized by their neighbors and sucked into a heart-...
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Nov.01.2011
Published by Kirkus Reviews
"Tragedy leads to complicated love as a widower and the woman who accidentally killed his wife are united by a grieving child looking for an angel. Compassion and a delicate...
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Nov.01.2011
Published by Publishers Weekly
"A touching story of loss and discovery. Leavitt explores the depths of grief and the sticky spots sorrow pushes people into, and ...her near bottomless reserve of compassion for...
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Nov.01.2011
Published by Venus Zine
"With a tragic story and a cast of highly relatable, flawed characters, Pictures of You is a kind of female version of another novel that revolves around a car accident, John...
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Jun.17.2007
Published by Associated Press
In the strongest piece of the bunch, seasoned novelist Caroline Leavitt writes with a storyteller's nose for suspense and conflict in the unbelievable true-life tale "...
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Jan.18.2004
Published by The Washington Post Book World
Fiction Baby Love A young mother tries to undo some bad decisions.
Reviewed by Carrie BrownSunday, January 18, 2004; Page BW05
GIRLS IN TROUBLE
By Caroline Leavitt....
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About Caroline
Caroline Leavitt's 9th novel, Pictures of You, was published by Algonquin Books in 2011 and is a New York Times bestseller. She is the award-winning author of eight other novels: Meeting Rozzy Halfway, Lifelines, Jealousies, Family, Into Thin Air,...
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