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Synopsis
- Joanna Rose is a longtime independent bookseller; she founded the Powell's Books reading series and ran it for fifteen years.
- Little Miss Strange, her debut novel, earned critical praise and an award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.
- In today's political climate, the topic of abortion has become a lightning rod for discussion; A Small Crowd of Strangers brings us inside how religion impacts one man's feelings on his wife's rights.
- Fans of the quirky women characters in Maria Semple's fiction, particularly Where'd You Go, Bernadette?, will enjoy hapless and heartfelt librarian Pattianne Anthony.
- Joanna Rose's ability to write relationships will appeal to fans of Anne Tyler and Ann Patchett.
- Family, at its core, is who you choose as your community, according to the lessons that Pattianne Anthony learns over the course of the book; her new friends on the edge of the world include a house full of adoptees, a priest in the process of losing his credentials, and a convenience store owner.
- Joanna Rose has a lifetime of literary connections in the Pacific Northwest in particular, including through her days as a bookseller, her work at Literary Arts, and her two-plus decades of teaching writers at the Pinewood Table.
- Positioning this title in fall 2020 may earn readers seeking long, delicious reads to escape the headlines.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Forest Avenue Press
- ISBN: 9781942436430
- Number of pages: 386
- Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 27 mm
- Weight: 568g
- Languages: English