Lauren Grodstein

press release:

Throughout Our Short History, Karen—a successful, neurotic, and deeply appealing woman whose humorous outlook on the world is reminiscent of Nora Ephron—is at turns loving, terrified, concerned, furious, and brimming with regret, but above all, filled with adoration for her son and her hopes for his future.

Lauren Grodstein’s previous two novels, the New York Times bestseller and New York Times Editors’ Choice A Friend of the Family and The Explanation for Everything, were highly praised by literary critics and both deemed a “Book of the Year” by the Washington Post. The New York Times Book Review called her “a terrific storyteller,” the Boston Globe praised her work as “stunning,” and Karen Russell (Vampires in the Lemon Grove) describes her forthcoming novel, Our Short History as “devastating, fearlessly honest, often hilarious, [and] gorgeously written.”