The Borrower is an Indie Next Pick!
The Borrower will be an Indie Bound Indie Next pick for June. (You know those wonderful brochures on the counter of your local independent bookstore?)
Archive for May 2011
BookPage Reviews The Borrower
The Borrower gets a lovely and generous review in BookPage: “It may seem inappropriate to call a novel involving a kidnapping heartwarming, but that’s exactly what The Borrower manages to be.” Read the full online version here!
The Borrower in Good Housekeeping
Good Housekeeping briefly reviews The Borrower in their June issue, out now, calling it “a delightfully quirky debut.” Click here to read the online version. (Comments from those who know me about the irony of my name appearing in a magazine called Good Housekeeping will be indignantly ignored.)
Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship
I will be a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference from July 26th to August 7th, and will give a reading on the Sewanee campus. More details on the reading to come!
Starbucks Bookish Pick
The Borrower has been chosen for Starbucks’ Bookish Reading Club, on the Starbucks Digital Network. From June 14th to 28th, Starbucks patrons who are signed into the network will be able to read The Borrower for free, after which, let’s hope, they will run out to buy it from their local indie!
The Last Book I Read reviews The Borrower →
This is not coming out until June, so put it on your to read list!
The Book Frog reviews The Borrower →
The Borrower is a book for readers, for lovers of personal freedom and the beauty of being oneself, whoever that self may be. If you get all the book references (“Where’s Papa going with that ax? said Fern”), then so much the better, but you’ll enjoy this wonderful novel either way.
- Tiffany Baker, author of The Little Giant of Aberdeen CountyAn electrifying debut about the moral choices we’re confronted with in today’s America. Uproariously funny, but with a bittersweet core, Makkai’s voice is so assured and lovely, she had me hooked by the end of her first paragraph and quite sorry to come to the end of her last one.”—
- Booklist (starred review)An accomplished short-story writer, Makkai has written a splendid first novel that cleverly weaves telling references to children’s books into her whimsically patchwork plot. Larger-than-life characters and an element of the picaresque add to the book’s delights. Best of all, however, is Lucy’s absolutely unshakable faith in the power of books to save. From her lips, readers, to God’s ear.
