Dennis Haritou: When I and my Penguin rep, Bill Martin, sat down to decide what to buy on this book, we were faced with a real problem. The author’s first novel, Chang and Eng, about a famous pair of Siamese twins, was a runaway success, especially in trade paper and received much critical praise. But the author’s second book had tanked (second book syndrome).
This is a considerable relief from those authors who tell the same story 20 times and sometimes twice a year at that. (You know who you are.)
Darin Strauss is and always has been, an independent bookstore owner’s dream author.
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