Cherise Wolas's Blog, page 11
July 24, 2017
THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY. . . ENTERING THE WORLD
THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY RECEIVES A STARRED REVIEW FROM BOOKLIST!
Deftly exploring themes of sibling rivalry and individualism and layering short stories within the larger narrative, this breathtaking . . . novel will do for motherhood what Gone Girl did for marriage. "A story requires two things: a great story to tell and the bravery to tell it," Joan observes. Wolas' debut expertly checks off both.
--Booklist (starred review)
Deftly exploring themes of sibling rivalry and individualism and layering short stories within the larger narrative, this breathtaking . . . novel will do for motherhood what Gone Girl did for marriage. "A story requires two things: a great story to tell and the bravery to tell it," Joan observes. Wolas' debut expertly checks off both.
--Booklist (starred review)
July 1, 2017
THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY. . . ENTERING THE WORLD
Dear Goodreaders,
It is nerve-wracking when your debut novel enters the world, when a private work becomes public.
At the outset of this journey that Joan Ashby and I are on, I want to say thank you all so much for reading, for your many stars, and your wonderful responses.
With grateful appreciation,
Cherise Wolas
It is nerve-wracking when your debut novel enters the world, when a private work becomes public.
At the outset of this journey that Joan Ashby and I are on, I want to say thank you all so much for reading, for your many stars, and your wonderful responses.
With grateful appreciation,
Cherise Wolas
THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY. . . ENTERING THE WORLD
A FANTASTIC REVIEW FROM TURNROW BOOKS!!
THANK YOU TO INDIE BOOKSELLER STEVE IWANSKI.
Cherise Wolas' debut novel is a narrative tour-de-force. Never mind the admirable boldness of kicking it off with excerpts from (fictional) Joan Ashby's Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning story collections -- Wolas proceeds to delicately peel back the onion layers on Ashby's decades of retreat from the public eye. Like Lauren Groff in FATES AND FURIES, Wolas triumphs in depicting the mounting humiliations of domestic life like a psychological thriller. You know we're headed for the inevitable rug pull - and yet when it comes it still leaves you reeling. Forget about Joan Ashby; it's Cherise Wolas who will leave us waiting breathlessly for the next masterpiece.
—Steve Iwanski, Turnrow Books, Greenwood, MS
THANK YOU TO INDIE BOOKSELLER STEVE IWANSKI.
Cherise Wolas' debut novel is a narrative tour-de-force. Never mind the admirable boldness of kicking it off with excerpts from (fictional) Joan Ashby's Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning story collections -- Wolas proceeds to delicately peel back the onion layers on Ashby's decades of retreat from the public eye. Like Lauren Groff in FATES AND FURIES, Wolas triumphs in depicting the mounting humiliations of domestic life like a psychological thriller. You know we're headed for the inevitable rug pull - and yet when it comes it still leaves you reeling. Forget about Joan Ashby; it's Cherise Wolas who will leave us waiting breathlessly for the next masterpiece.
—Steve Iwanski, Turnrow Books, Greenwood, MS
THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY. . . ENTERING THE WORLD
THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY RECEIVES A STARRED KIRKUS REVIEW!!
Like John Irving's The World According to Garp, this is a look at the life of a writer that will entertain many nonwriters. Like Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies, it is a sharp-eyed portrait of the artist as spouse and householder.
From the start, one wonders how Wolas is possibly going to pay off the idea that her heroine is such a genius. Verdict: few could do better.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Like John Irving's The World According to Garp, this is a look at the life of a writer that will entertain many nonwriters. Like Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies, it is a sharp-eyed portrait of the artist as spouse and householder.
From the start, one wonders how Wolas is possibly going to pay off the idea that her heroine is such a genius. Verdict: few could do better.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
