#BuyThisBook: Elizabeth Berg's "Last Time I Saw You" (freshly minted in stocking friendly paperback)

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Perfect for "everyone who has received an invitation to their high-school reunion and broken out in a cold, clammy sweat. Berg nails the experience."

A cast of engaging characters return home for their 40-year high school reunion, contemplating redemption, reputation rehab, and revenge. An Elizabeth Berg novel ensues. Beautifully written and born for book club discussion.

Buy This Book: "Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True" by Elizabeth Berg

The enhanced digital edition of my memoir, Bald in the Land of Big Hair, is coming out in a couple weeks with a foreword by the wonderful Elizabeth Berg. I'm trying to decide how to credit her in the PR copy: "bestselling author of..." Oh dear. Decisions, decisions. The obvious choice might be Talk Before Sleep, because it eloquently speaks to both the experience of having cancer and the experience of loving someone who has cancer. The obvious choice if I'm trying to suck up to Oprah, would be Berg's Oprah Book Club book, Open House, or I could go with the forever readable Durable Goods. Or there's the more recent (and gorgeous) novels, The Last Time I Saw You and Home Safe. I'll let you know when I make up my mind. Meanwhile, Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True is Berg's gift to writers, which she describes as "everything I know and believe about the craft." And trust me, she knows plenty. Check it out.