THE YEAR END LISTS
The book has been included in the following year end lists. My profound thanks to all, and I wish you a happy new year.
“Top 10 Books of 2007” – USA TODAY
“Year’s Best Books” – NPR’s FRESH AIR
“Editor’s Fiction Favorites for 2007” – THE BLOOMSBURY REVIEW
“Best Recommended List” – CRITICAL MASS, THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS’ CIRCLE
“Favorite Fiction of 2007” – CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“Favorite Books of the Year” – CHICAGO SUN TIMES
“Auspicious Debut” – 2007 BOOK SENSE PICK HIGHLIGHTS
“Auspicious Debut” – PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Notable Books of 2007” – SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“Best Novels of the Year” and “THE TIMES Christmas Choice” – THE TIMES (London)
“Favorite Novels of 2007” – LARGEHEARTEDBOY.COM
Wonderful Book Club News:
FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES is a selection of the Juggle Book Club of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
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The Greetings of the Season
My family and I moved to Tokyo in late August, and three months have raced by. Boxes remain unpacked, but everyone is settling in. Already, we’ve had two sets of wonderful houseguests, and we prepare for dear friends to arrive at the end of the month to help celebrate our first Christmas in Japan. As for the writing life, there was a personal essay in VOGUE in November about millinery and my father. Essays are forthcoming in the 2008 anthologies, WALK THIS WAY (ed. Rebecca Walker) about the new American family and WHY I’M A DEMOCRAT (ed. Susan Mulcahy)—a benefit collection for Katrina victims.
Happy news: In the States, FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES was included in the year-end round up for best fiction of 2007 in THE BLOOMSBURY REVIEW and in the inaugural Best Recommended List of CRITICAL MASS, the website of THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS’ CIRCLE, and was a Favorite Books of 2007 in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. It was a Notable Book of 2007 in the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. On NPR’s FRESH AIR, it was included in book critic Maureen Corrigan’s list of eight best novels of the year. It was an Auspicious Debut in the 2007 BOOK SENSE PICK HIGHLIGHTS and in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. In the UK, the book was selected by THE TIMES (London) as one of the ten best novels of the year and is a Christmas Choice.
The book in translation will be released in South Korea (Magellan) and Italy (Einaudi) presently. The paperback will be released in the United States in April 2008.
I hope this note finds you and your loved ones very well in the holiday season.
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