Michelle Latiolais, Author . Bellevue Literary Press $22.95 (205p) ISBN 978-1-934137-11-6
The troubled inner life of an autism doctor centers this slow-moving recovery novel from Latiolais (Even Now
). A progressive psychiatrist, Luke is simultaneously driven and haunted by the death of his younger sister Sadie: her possible autism was...
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Michelle Latiolais, Bellevue Literary (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-934137-29-1
The 17 poetic if often opaque stories in this collection from Latiolais (A Proper Knowledge) focus on the inner worlds of women grappling with grief and sadness. In the title story, an unnamed widow tries to cope with an inept gynecologist, ponders...
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Michelle Latiolais, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (268p) ISBN 978-0-374-14993-2
Set in northern California, this sympathetic but slow-moving first novel traces the struggles of teenaged Lisa Sandham, torn between her divorced parents. Lisa's mother, Elisabeth, petulant and controlling, is accustomed to the limelight--she acts...
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Michelle Latiolais. Norton, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-28505-5
It’s 2013, and on the eve of her 15th birthday, a young, nameless girl runs away from her sheltered family home in Needles, Ca., to take refuge in Los Angeles. She is trying to escape her violent religious upbringing, and though she knows nobody...
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