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“Gilman rises to a new level of urgency, empathy, pathos, and, simply, beauty, in her storytelling.”
— Boris Fishman, author of Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo
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An Oprah Magazine Summer Reading Pick
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Hilarious, heartfelt and breathless.
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With her riotous and tender second novel, Gilman delivers her own windmill-tilting sojourn---with a woman at the helm.
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In her new equally generous, hilarious work of fiction, a 45-year-old "bad Jewish girl," recovering alcoholic, and flamed-out punk rocker leaves her dentist husband and his dominatrix and narrates her road trip, and a final sharp twist in the novel provides it with a special meaning.
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Epic
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[A] witty romp....Donna is reliably irreverent and her travels follow a moving evolution to renewed confidence as she comes to terms with mistakes and regrets. Fans of Jonathan Tropper will love this.
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Thanks to Gilman's characteristic wit and charm, her latest novel is a hilariously over-the-top, devastating yet relatable tale of one woman's descent into and back from a personal hell [...] Gilman's writing is razor-sharp and propulsive as her protagonist maintains her wry humor about her situation while probing underlying questions about self-identity, friendship, love, and memory with sensitivity and grace.
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Refreshing [and] surprising...A larger-than-life story about a woman who makes drastic decisions in an attempt to get back on track.
— Kirkus
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In a novel with quirky characters, hilarious misadventures and kinky sex, the unexpected denouement of Donna Has Left the Building is a gritty, realistic depiction of a true crisis, and a tender story of family love.
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What I cherish about Susan Jane Gilman's writing is how light the touch is, and how deeply it cuts. Like the flawed heroine of this engrossing and incisive -- politically, domestically, psychologically -- story of an ordinary American life confronted by extraordinary need in the world beyond our borders, Gilman rises to a new level of urgency, empathy, pathos, and, simply, beauty, in her storytelling.
— Boris Fishman, author of Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo
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This big hearted novel is intimate and riveting and keeps the reader engrossed from beginning to end! It takes those classic stories usually told about men-the midlife crisis, the epic quest and turns them inside-out with a smart, edgy, woman at the helm who discovers a greater sense of purpose in the world. A love story in the greatest sense. Brilliant, scathing, powerful, insanely funny. Read it!
— April Sinclair, author of Coffee Will Make You Black
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You'll laugh out loud and also be moved by this tale of motherhood, love, art, and an epic cross-country road trip.
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Donna is frank and funny in the way we want our girlfriends to be. . . While she is self-absorbed for much of the novel, she eventually comes around, realizing that real happiness is found outside yourself.
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