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I’m happy to announce that Happiness Economics, my second novel, will be published by Brindle & Glass in fall, 2011!

My first novel Things Go Flying, also from Brindle & Glass, was shortlisted for the 2009 Sunburst Award. Here’s what the jurors said:

“Shari Lapeña’s disarmingly deadpan novel of domestic dysfunction nudges readers into the realm of the uncanny, wherein the oh-so-familiar is suddenly rendered strange, even frightening, but which, when faced, leads its characters back to the familiar, and the essential truths of who they are. As the Walker family begins to disintegrate in the usual ways of busy modern urban families, the unusual and extraordinary begin to happen. Eventually, the boundaries between normal and paranormal are blurred to the extent that everything—from a husband and father’s midlife crisis to a teenage boy’s exploration of sex and identity—is edged with strangeness, with magic and finally wonder. A gem.”

Here’s what the Globe & Mail said about Things Go Flying:
“Lapeña stretches belief with great charm. Her cameo clips of Voltaire and Nietzsche are a mind-tweaking delight. Her style is a gently exaggerated verisimilitude, her form spooky farce, all held aloft by sensitive portraits of four very different human animals.”

Brazilian rights to Things Go Flying have sold to Saraiva Livreiros Editores! It will be released in Brazil on Oct. 20, 2010.

Look around, read an excerpt, and check out the Reader’s Guide for book clubs. I will even visit your book club for snacks—as long as it’s in the Greater Toronto Area. Just drop me a line by email, on the Contacts page.

Shari

Links

Brindle & Glass
The Writers’ Union of Canada
The Globe and Mail Books
The Afterword
Quill & Quire
Open Book Toronto
That Shakespearean Rag
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