🙂 Actually, I usually only have Snickers about once a year, because it’s the only candy from my son’s Halloween stash he doesn’t like. I eat Snickers WHILE I cook like a madwoman. What do you do to comfort yourself when you’re feeling stressed or upset? Bean’s mother cooks in a frenzy when she’s feeling emotional. Just a girl named Pearl.īean finds comfort in eating frozen mini-Snickers bars dipped in hot coffee. It would be years before I wrote anything else about her. It was just a little scene I wrote, way back in 1995. I remember putting a piece of pink paper into the office typewriter and writing a sentence about a girl named Pearl and how her name came to be. It was summer, and most of the faculty were gone, which meant there wasn’t a lot of work for me to do. One day I was sitting in the office feeling extremely lonely.
Many years ago I was working as an administrative assistant in the English and Philosophy Department at Simmons College to put myself through graduate school. Jo’s writing just keeps getting better and better. The characters are so real, I cared deeply about all of them, particularly Bean. I couldn’t put it down and I shed more than a few tears. This is a story about secrets, family, and love. Then there’s Claire, Bean’s mother’s friend whom Bean doesn’t really like, and suddenly is at the house all the time. Bean learns some shocking truths about her beloved grandfather and why he and Bean’s mother were always so at odds. After a tragedy in her family, Bean feels like she might be living her own soap opera, as lies and secrets are revealed. In Pearl, fifteen-year-old Bean spends most of her time with her best friend Henry, watching soap operas with him and his homebound mother.
Today, I am absolutely thrilled to be able to feature one of my favorite authors and people, Jo Knowles! Keep reading because below is a chance for you to win a signed copy of Jo’s newest book! Jo is the author of Lessons From A Dead Girl (Candlewick Press), Jumping Off Swings (Candlewick Press), and her newest, Pearl (Henry Holt). I hope you will join me and share your favorites, too! I’d love to have you visit regularly – please feel free to subscribe (below right) and you’ll be informed by email every time I post something new (probably twice a week). Hello! Welcome to the inaugural post of DEBtastic Reads! Here, I will highlight my favorite books and authors, interviews, book buzz, contests, and more.
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