Suzanne Strempek Shea, Author . Pocket $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7434-0375-7
Shea's bestselling Hoopi Shoopi Donna
and Lily of the Valley
established her as a chronicler of Polish-American life with a wholesome and heartwarming, if sometimes treacly, style. Now she focuses on Robyn Panek, who returns to the Massachusetts
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Suzanne Strempek Shea, Author . Beacon $23 (204p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7246-2
Novelist and former journalist Shea (Selling the Lite of Heaven) says that while she was never much of a diarist, she found writing about her experience with radiation therapy for breast cancer therapeutic. In order to help other women "who'd
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Suzanne Strempek Shea, Author . Beacon $24.95 (313p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7224-0
It's a fascinating project: attend 52 different churches in one year and report your first impressions. Shea, a New England novelist and former Catholic, engagingly writes of her initial visits to all kinds of churches: Shaker and Baptist,...
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Suzanne Strempek Shea, Author Washington Square Press $23.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-671-53545-2
A coming-of-age novel about Poles in America and a girl with a dream--her own all-woman polka band. (May)
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Suzanne Strempek Shea, Author Atria Books $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-02710-0
Shea returns for the third time to the small-town Massachusetts she captured so well in Selling the Lite of Heaven and Hoopi Shoopi Donna for this sentimental yet satisfying tale of dreams realized in peculiar ways. When she was 10, Lily Wilk pulled
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Suzanne Strempek Shea, Author Beacon Press (MA) $20 (223p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7258-5
To fill the time as she recovered from cancer and chemotherapy, Strempek Shea volunteered at a friend's independent bookstore in Springfield, Mass. An accomplished novelist (Around Again; Lily of the Valley), Strempek Shea felt at first like a spy--"
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Suzanne Strempek Shea, Author, Suzanne Strempek-Shea, Author, Shea, Author Atria Books $20 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-79864-2
Shea's first novel is a delightful foray into the quirks and quibbles of the Polish-Catholic town of Chicopee, Mass. The unnamed narrator, ingenuous yet unflappable, is the 32-year-old daughter of immigrants who have slathered her in Vicks and mild...
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Suzanne Strempek Shea, Author, Shea, Author Atria Books $22 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-53544-5
For 14-year-old Donna Milewski, the only child of doting parents, the arrival, in the 1970s, from Poland of her underprivileged cousin is nothing less than tragic. Overnight, the entire Milewski household, stalwart members of the Polish community in
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