12:30-2:00 in Room 12 “Time to Grow Up: Novels of Grappling with Girlhood” with Anton DiSclafani and Dale Kushner. Panel discussion, audience Q & A, and book signing.
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Brooklyn Book Festival
1 pm at St. Francis McArdle (180 Remsen Street): “The Wonder Years” Reading and panel with Meg Wolitzer (The Interestings) and Ben Dolnick (At The Bottom of Everything). Event description: “In these novels, childhood friends weave in and out of each other’s lives as they grow into adulthood and out of each other. These friends are… Read more »
The 2013 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction
You Are One of Them is on the long list; the short list of finalists will be announced in late August.
The San Francisco Chronicle Review
“Holt’s wonderful novel “You Are One of Them” beautifully compresses and expands time, place and the boundaries of the self.”
The Washington Post review
“Holt has found inventive ways to use language that suggests the porousness of identity, the correspondence between self and other, neighbor and foreigner, you and them. Her ingenuity brings distinction to this confident, crafty first novel.“
The Boston Globe review
“This tenuousness practically sings in the book’s latter half, as a trip meant to reunite Sarah with an old friend drives home for her the quintessential alienation humans feel, as if the title could be a sentence uttered either by Sarah or her Russian acquaintances. No spoilers, here, don’t worry — but it wouldn’t make… Read more »
NYTBR Editors’ Choice
You Are One of Them is a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
Amazon’s 10 Best Books of the Month
You Are One of Them was chosen as one of Amazon’s Ten Best Books of the Month for June.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune Review
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune: “It’s that ambiguity that lends the conclusion of You Are One of Them its power. The resolution to Holt’s novel brings together all of the elements raised in the preceding pages, from saber-rattling to childhood betrayals. It’s a dramatically satisfying ending that invokes those things that we can never know… Read more »
New York Times Book Review podcast
I joined the New York Times Book Review podcast to talk about You Are One of Them, which was reviewed in the May 26th issue.