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About.com names FOLLOWING EZRA Favorite Special Needs Memoir of 2012

This is a reader’s choice award, which makes it even more meaningful. Congratulations to author Tom Fields-Meyer!
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Wendy Mogel can change the way you think about your teenager

Simon & Schuster has posted a lovely video of Wendy Mogel guaranteed to persuade you that raising a teen can be “invigorating, enlightening, and entertaining”–click here to see it. (It just might bring tears to your eyes.) For much more inspiration and support, read THE BLESSING OF A B MINUS, just out in paperback.
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More coverage of FOLLOWING EZRA in The Atlantic online and Lisa Belkin’s NYT parenting blog

Click here for a wonderful Q&A with author Tom Fields-Meyer about what it was like for him to write about his son, Ezra. Lisa Belkin also wrote about the book in a Motherlode blog entry called “Parenting Reading for Back to School,” where she describes it (rightly!) as “wonderful.”
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The WSJ excerpts Tom Fields-Meyer’s memoir FOLLOWING EZRA

Read the Wall Street Journal excerpt here. When Tom’s son Ezra was diagnosed with autism before he turned three, a counselor suggested that he and his wife grieve for “the child Ezra didn’t turn out to be.”  But Tom had, as he writes, no instinct to mourn.  Instead, the counselor’s remark helped him bring out […]
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Praise for Marisel Vera’s IF I BRING YOU ROSES

We’ve gotten such lovely quotes for Marisel Vera’s debut novel, IF I BRING YOU ROSES: “A richly told tale of obsessive love…deeply sensual and mysterious.” —Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban “A deeply felt and satisfying tale that brings attention to the courage required to sustain hope, love, and passion as a stranger in […]
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Marisel Vera’s IF I BRING YOU ROSES is out now from Grand Central

The author had the brilliant idea to recruit her daughter, actress Alyssa Vera Ramos, and Alyssa’s friend Alex Tey, artistic director of 13 o’clock Theatre in Rio Grande, Texas, to read a chapter from the book.  It will bring tears to your eyes.  View it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLS2J9czTaU.  This also happens to be Marisel’s first book […]
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Praise for Tom Fields-Meyer’s FOLLOWING EZRA

Tom has gotten a striking amount of pre-pub praise for his memoir, FOLLOWING EZRA: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters, Autism and Love from His Extraordinary Son (coming from NAL in September): “Following Ezra is a revelation. I could not put it down. Life rarely goes according to plan, and too often we try […]
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Kim Boyce’s GOOD TO THE GRAIN *wins* the James Beard Award!

News from New York last night — Kim Boyce’s GOOD TO THE GRAIN won the James Beard Award in the baking and dessert category.  Well deserved!  Now on to the IACP…
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Kim Boyce’s GOOD TO THE GRAIN is nominated for a James Beard award!

GOOD TO THE GRAIN strikes me as a once-in-a-decade kind of cookbook.  No wonder it’s been nominated for every award in sight!
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John Vorhaus has friends in high places

I guess this is what comes from having friends in Hollywood. Check out the super-professional, super-fun (and super no-budget, I’m told) video that John Vorhaus and his Hollywood filmmaker friends have created to support John’s new novel, The Albuquerque Turkey, available from Crown in a week. Trust me: It’ll be the best 4:40 you spend […]
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