New York Times: Portes tells this tale of violence in spiraling prose. Her empathy shies away from nothing in the tangled lives of this small Michigan town, with a young girl tied up tight in the center. “Bury This” begins with the snowplow driver who finds Krauses’ body, and the writing is so exquisite it is impossible to believe that Portes could sustain its impressionistic method, at once omnipresent and precise, for the remainder of the novel. But she does, with hardly a slip in tone as we move from character to character.
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Kathryn Craft’s While the Leaves Stood Still, based on the author’s personal story, about a tense ten-hour standoff between one desperate man ready to take his life and the police, while his family and the community grapple with how best to respond, to Shana Drehs at Sourcebooks, for publication Spring 2015, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Andrea Portes’ ANATOMY OF A MISFIT and an untitled YA novel to Kristen Pettit at Harper Children’s in a six figure deal by Katie Shea.
Library Journal: Faye, 14, feels worthless and oppressed. Her father, a struggling musician, left her and her mother years earlier, her mother is full of anger and takes it out on the teen, and her two neighborhood friends have convinced her that if you aren’t attractive, the only way to make it in life is to take what you want. The novel, which is set in 1984 Brooklyn, opens with Faye and her friends staking out a former movie star’s apartment so they can take her money. The robbery goes awry