Lauren Schott was born in Akron, Ohio, and is a graduate of Duke University. She has spent twenty-five years working in publishing. Very Slowly All at Once is her first novel for adults. She currently lives in Henley-on-Thames, UK, with her family.
At Lit Hub Schott tagged six books that "show, even the darker side of life in Ohio offers up rich lives worth examining." One title on the list:
Celeste Ng, Little Fires EverywhereRead about another novel on the list.
Shaker Heights, the suburban Cleveland setting for Ng’s novel about motherhood, race, and privilege, is the perfect location for a novel aboutmiddle class America. The real-life regulations on what color to paint your house, how short to cut your grass, and exactly where to put your garbage can on trash day make this suburb ripe for an outsider and her teenage daughter to come along and shake things up. Ng perfectly captures the strange otherness of the place; in reality, there’s no physical barrier between Shaker Heights and the neighborhoods that surround it, but when you cross into Shaker, you’ll know it immediately. The grass really is greener, at least for some.
Little Fires Everywhere is among Sara Foster's six thrillers where mothers fight for their children, Isabelle McConville's five favorite dysfunctional book families, Beth Morrey‘s top ten single mothers in fiction, R.J. Hoffmann's six titles featuring adoptions gone awry, Amy Stuart's five thrilling novels with deeply flawed fictional characters you’ll learn to appreciate as you turn the pages and Kate Hamer's top ten teenage friendships in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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