Books by Joanna Pearson and Complete Book Reviews

The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills
The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills
Joanna Pearson. Scholastic/Levine, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-545-19773-1
How better to survive high school than by pulling back and observing it with the cool, detached eye of an anthropologist? That's junior Janice Mills's plan, though readers will soon recognize that Janice isn't nearly as objective as she believes she
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Now You Know It All
Now You Know It All
Joanna Pearson. Univ. of Pittsburgh, $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8229-4699-1
Pearson’s subtle and moving collection (after Every Human Love) showcases women pushed to their limits, with undertones of creepiness or dread. Two adult sisters reminisce in “Boy in the Barn” about their summers spent with their grandmother and are
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Bright and Tender Dark
Bright and Tender Dark
Joanna Pearson. Bloomsbury, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-63973-289-0
Pearson’s rich debut murder mystery gathers potency from its portrait of middle-aged millennial angst and Y2K-era misogyny. In 2019, 20 years after Joy Brunner’s freshman year college roommate, Karlie Richards, was brutally murdered, the mom of two...
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