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Karen Karbo’s The Diamond Lane reviewed by ShelfAwareness

23 Sep 2014|

Karbo’s story is timeless, and her writing is seamless. She is a keen, wry observer of the hazards of Hollywood and marriage and the fraught relationships between lovers, mothers and daughters and sisters. Filled with sharp characterizations and laugh-out-loud scenes, Karbo’s early ‘90s-era novel proves that, in the right literary hands, the comedic absurdities of life never go out of style.—Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines

Shelf Talker: This smart early ‘90s-era comedy of manners about familial, romantic and Hollywood entanglements gets a timely reissue.

To read the entire review, go to Shelf Awareness.