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SUMMARY:Cara Hoffman signs SO MUCH PRETTY for its paperback release
DESCRIPTION:Barbara raves about So Much Pretty ($16). but as she will be traveling in Japan with Laurie R. King\, Velma Teague Library's Lesa Holstine will be your host and chat with Hoffman about her debut novel.    [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="267" caption="Click to Order"][/caption]    Set in a rural community steeped in silence and denial\,So Much Pretty explores all parents’ greatest fear\, that their child will be hurt. But it also examines a second\, equally troubling question: What if my child hurts someone else? The disappearance and murder of nineteen-year-old Wendy White is detailed through the eyes of journalist Stacy Flynn and a host of other richly drawn characters\, each with their own secrets and convictions. After Wendy’s body is found\, Flynn’s intense crusade to expose a killer draws the attention of a precocious local girl\, Alice Piper\, whose story intertwines with Wendy’s in a spellbinding and unexpected climax.    CARA HOFFMAN is the author of So Much Pretty. Hoffman grew up in a depressed upstate New York town\, dropped out of high school\, bought a one-way ticket to London with her savings\, and spent the next three years writing and working as an agricultural laborer and runner in Europe and the Middle East.    In 90s\, she returned to the United States\, became a mother\, and began working as an investigative reporter at a daily newspaper. Hoffman covered New York State’s rural and Rust Belt communities for over a decade\, reporting on environmental politics\, county legislatures\, and crime. In 2000 she received a New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for her writing on the aesthetics of violence and its impact on children\, a topic she would continue to research and explore through fiction.    Hoffman received her Masters of Fine Arts in Writing from Goddard College in 2009. She has been a guest lecturer at Cornell University\, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a Visiting Writer at Goddard College. She lives in Manhattan with her son where she tutors at the Lower East Side Girls Club\, teaches English at Bronx Community College\, and eats late dinners with Nation editor Roane Carey. [hr]       “[A] fearless first novel… For all the passion in this intense narrative\, Hoffman writes with a restraint that makes poetry of pain. She also shows a mastery of her craft by developing the story over 17 years and narrating it from multiple perspectives. While each has a different take on the horrific events that no one saw coming\, the people who live in this insular place remain willfully blind to their own contributions to the deeper causes that made this tragedy almost inevitable.”  —New York Times Book Review  “So Much Pretty delivers a skillful\, psychologically acute tale of how violence affects a small town . . . To say more about Hoffman's constantly surprising story is to reveal too much\, but the payoff is more than worth the slow-building suspense.”—Los Angeles Times  “A dark but powerful debut . . . Hoffman maps the atmosphere of paranoia that descends on the formerly tranquil town as she moves deftly between its inhabitants.”—The New Yorker (Books Pick)[hr]
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