OK then, here's a bit about the book from Publisher's Weekly:
Evison's debut—of love and loss, growing up, throwing up and moving on—is a stunner. William Miller Jr. is a scrawny loner whose mother dies of cancer when he is seven years old,leaving him an awkward vegetarian with an ominously macho father and idiot twin brothers in mid-1970s Santa Monica. William's father, Big Bill, remarries a grief counselor named Willow, and Will spends the following decades in love with Louisa (Lulu, as she prefers to be called), his new stepsister. They are close throughout adolescence, but after a summer at cheerleading camp, Lulu returns home distant and hostile, leaving Will to pine for her in solitary desperation. Will finally appears to be on the path to normalcy in the early 1990s when he lucks into a radio talk-show hosting gig, but the stroke of good fortune is short-lived, as he discovers things about Lulu he'd rather not know. Evison provides readers a viciously funny and deeply felt portrayal of a blended family and one man's thwarted longing.
Don't forget to read this month's book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, which we will be discussing on June 30. And please leave a comment below for a chance to win a copy of Evison's All About Lulu. I'll be choosing a winner on June 25, so be sure to leave a comment before then. Also, check out Jonathan Evison's Web site for his tour dates (he may be coming to Sacramento!).
7 comments:
I'd love to read this book
dolls123[at]gmail[dot]com
This sounds like a good book, I'd love to read it.
This sounds like a great bookthat I'd love to read! Thank you for this chance!
Alessandra
outofblue1[at]gmail.com
I'm definitely interested ... I haven't been able to do any of them yet, because my name always comes up too late on the library's waiting list. :o/
Greetings! This sounds like a wonderful debut novel. The characters sound somewhat quirky and I like
that! I wish this writer much luck in his writing career. Please enter me in your delightful giveaway book drawing. I appreciate it! Thanks, Cindi
jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com
The story sounds like it's going to tug at my heart and I'd really like to read about that poor child's life and learn the secrets and how he turns out. It sounds like a page turner.
doot65[at]comcast[dot]net
Please throw my name in the hat for this one! Thank You!
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