I was trolling around in the bargain areas at Borders when I discovered "While I'm Falling" by Laura Moriarty. The book cover was intruiging enough, but what really grabbed me was the single-sentence review on the cover.
"Moriarty keeps getting better and better."- Jodi Picoult.
JODI. PICOULT.
Um, confession. I might have a slight
The kind that makes me run out and buy every single one of her books, the day it comes out, in hard cover, at full price.
Ahem.
Anyway, I figured that any book Jodi liked I'd be a fan of as well, so I picked up "While I'm Falling," and discovered a gem of a novel about the events in a character's life surrounding the first time she falls in love, including her relationship with her mother as her parents own marriage is questioned.
Later in the year I also picked up (or somehow acquired- it's possible, in fact, that this was one of my mother's book club picks that she passed along to me) "The Rest of Her Life," another Moriarty book with a Picoult endorsement on the cover. This one, again, focuses largely on the relationship between mother and daughter following a tragic accident.
In both, her characters are incredibly realistic and well done. I'm definitely looking forward to reading more of her books!
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