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5-Under-The-Radar Reads From Librarian Nancy Pearl

19 Dec 2014|

Dec, 19 2014 — (Morning Edition) —
Librarian Nancy Pearl occasionally joins Morning Edition to talk about books she loves that you might not have heard of. As she tells NPR’s Steve Inskeep, her latest batch of under-the-radar reads includes some older books as well some new ones.

The Diamond Lane

Karen Karbo

The Diamond Lane was originally published in 1990s and has just been republished by a small [Portland, Ore.,] publisher, Hawthorne Books. And what a treat for readers this is. It’s a fabulously funny satire on Hollywood, on sisterly love, on marriage. ... The main characters in this book are two sisters, Mouse and Mimi. And they grow up in Hollywood, in Los Angeles. And Mouse, because of something major that happens that her sister does, leaves and moves to Africa and becomes a documentary filmmaker. Then a family emergency, after more than a decade, brings her back home and there she is faced with everything that she thought that she left behind. ... Mouse, when she comes back to California ... brings her boyfriend, also a documentary filmmaker, with her. But, of course, he loses interest in documentary films and wants to write a film script that will be magically famous. ...

“Anyone who has a sister I think will adore this book. Anybody who appreciates very smart, funny novels will like this book as well. It was one of my favorites when it first came out, and to find it again in a beautiful, beautiful presentation — beautiful cover, everything about it. Hawthorne Books did a fabulous job.”

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