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Home Author Archive For Librarians Authors: Get Included Miriam Gershow Dear Reader, Three years ago, a single idea popped into my head: A teenaged girl is out canvassing her neighborhood with posters of her missing brother, and she gets into a fight with a convenience store clerk who refuses to hang the poster. From that snippet, my debut novel, THE LOCAL NEWS, was born. Combining family drama, mystery and coming-of-age, THE LOCAL NEWS tells the story of awkward, bookish Lydia Pasternak, whose older, more charismatic brother disappears the summer before her sophomore year. Called "an accomplished debut" (Publishers Weekly) with a "disarmingly unsentimental narrative voice" (Kirkus Reviews), this novel explores many of my long-time fascinations: the perils of high school, the messy complications of family, the nature of loss, and the love/hate relationship we often have to those closest to us. Please email me at miriam@miriamgershow.com for a chance to win one of five signed copies of the book. For more about THE LOCAL NEWS, visit www.miriamgershow.com. Sincerely, Miriam Gershow TOP OF PAGE BACK TO MAIN PAGE © 2005 by AuthorBuzz