GMA Makes an 'Enemy'
by Daisy Maryles -- Publishers Weekly, 7/15/2002
Continuing the media epidemic du jour (aka on-air book clubs), Good Morning America last Thursday announced its second selection, Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles. Per GMA's "round-robin" format, the latest Read This! choice was recommended by one book club (in this case, Mostly We Eat, of Bernardsville, N.J.) to another (Atlanta's Twelve Oaks Book Club). Published by Morrow in February, Jiles's debut novel was termed "stark, unsentimental, yet touching" by PW, while Janet Maslin in the New York Times hailed it as "a book with backbone, written with tough, haunting eloquence." Morrow reports 35,000 copies in print pre-GMA, and 200,000 afterward. (Coincidentally, Enemy Women is the GMA club's second debut novel; Knopf's The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer is up to 223,000 copies in print after five trips back to press.)
With reporting by Dick Donahue
