Her entry begins:I know this is an opportunity to puff my friends, my brilliant and astonishing writer friends (you know who you are, girls and boys). and it is also an enticement to name drop and show off. I am going to step away from those seductions. I am reading Cara Hoffman’s So Much Pretty. It’s so good, I actually stopped breathing at one point so as not to miss anything. She has confidence and style, but so much substance! I am wildly impressed.Among the acclaim for Cleaning Nabokov's House:
I am also reading something that I have never heard of anyone reading...[read on]
"Required Reading"Learn more about the book and author at Leslie Daniels's website and blog.
—New York Post
"Blisteringly funny," "gem-filled novel"
—Minneapolis StarTribune
"Leslie Daniels has created a character to root for."
—Los Angeles Times
“Daniels is warmly funny and audacious in this shrewd and saucy mix of family drama, gender discord, sexual healing, and high literature…"
—Booklist
“Refreshingly eccentric…characters live and breathe… humor, energy, wit… a delightful read.”
—Library Journal
“Fine company—blunt, mordantly funny…a winning combination of ruthlessness and warmth.”
—Kirkus
“Richly detailed…a pleasure to read.”
—Publishers Weekly
“The pleasures of the novel unfold in a series of tantalizing, laugh-out-loud twists. The portrayals are as heartrending as the writing is dead-on funny.”
—Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander
"An emotional spring tonic for everyone who longs for love."
—Carolyn See, author of Making a Literary Life
The Page 69 Test: Cleaning Nabokov's House.
Writers Read: Leslie Daniels.
--Marshal Zeringue
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