Suzanne Greenberg, whose fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in the Mississippi Review, West Branch, and Washington Post Magazine, is the author of Speed-Walk and Other Stories, which was selected for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize by Rick Moody and was a John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist. She is also the co-author of two novels for children, Abigail Iris: The One and Only and Abigail Iris: The Pet Project, as well as the book Everyday Creative Writing: Panning for Gold in the Kitchen Sink. Lesson Plans is her first novel for adults. A New Jersey native, Greenberg lives with her husband and three children in California and teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach.
Library Journal Editor's Pick
Reader's Digest "Great Books from Small Presses That Are Worth Your
Time" "Witty and insightful." --Reader's Digest "Readers who
enjoyed Tom Perrotta's Little Children will want to try Suzanne
Greenberg's Lesson Plans, an entertaining, funny, and thoughtful
debut novel about three California homeschooling families."
--Library Journal Editor's Pick citation "Lesson Plans is a
complex, character-driven story written with clarity about the
intersecting lives of ordinary parents, the choices they make and
the long-term effects of these choices on their children. Author
Suzanne Greenberg mines the territory of Tom Perrotta with a fresh
take on today's suburban subcultures and entwined family
relationships. Crafted with skill and depth, the characters stay
with you long after the book ends." --LIAN DOLAN, author of
Elizabeth the First Wife and Helen of Pasadena "In her new novel
Lesson Plans, Suzanne Greenberg brings her slyly humorous eye to a
group of homeschoolers in Southern California. Following three
families whose lives are unraveling, Greenberg lays bare the
illusions and despair of these characters, their loneliness and
longing for love. But she also shows us hope springing to life as
reliably as vacant lot weeds. Greenberg is an unapologetically
honest writer, with a sharp eye for how easily any life can veer
off course." --CAI EMMONS, author of His Mother's Son and The
Stylist "Reading Suzanne Greenberg's Lesson Plans, I was schooled
in the nuances of the human heart and privy to the most
illuminating of chalkboards. Greenberg possesses a satirist's wit
and a realist's sharp eye for details. Lesson Plans has everything:
depth, humor, insight, a compelling, page-turning story and deftly
crafted, unforgettable characters. This is a brilliant debut novel,
a completely engrossing look at contemporary suburban America."
--LISA GLATT, author of A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That and The
Apple's Bruise "All good parents want to protect their children
from the perils of the world around them. Not all parents put their
children's needs before their own. Or find the balance between the
two. A story set within the arcane world of homeschooling, rooted
in place and time and misplaced love, there are no heroes or
villains in Suzanne Greenberg's heartbreaking tale of families torn
asunder by the conflict of good intentions and desire." --PEGGY
HESKETH, author of Telling the Bees "Homeschooling will never be
the same after Suzanne Greenberg's hilarious, poignant, and
cinematic debut novel, Lesson Plans, about three families whose
lives change profoundly through the wild, exhausting, and
redemptive journey that homeschooling actually requires. This
bittersweet novel is a survival manual for intelligent parents
willing to take a hard road, and for any reader, a sheer delight."
--HOWARD NORMAN, Two-time National Book Award Finalist for The
Northern Lights and The Bird Artist
Library Journal Editor's Pick
Reader's Digest "Great Books from Small Presses That Are Worth Your
Time" "Witty and insightful." --Reader's Digest "Readers who
enjoyed Tom Perrotta's Little Children will want to try Suzanne
Greenberg's Lesson Plans, an entertaining, funny, and thoughtful
debut novel about three California homeschooling families."
--Library Journal Editor's Pick citation "Lesson Plans is a
complex, character-driven story written with clarity about the
intersecting lives of ordinary parents, the choices they make and
the long-term effects of these choices on their children. Author
Suzanne Greenberg mines the territory of Tom Perrotta with a fresh
take on today's suburban subcultures and entwined family
relationships. Crafted with skill and depth, the characters stay
with you long after the book ends." --LIAN DOLAN, author of
Elizabeth the First Wife and Helen of Pasadena "In her new novel
Lesson Plans, Suzanne Greenberg brings her slyly humorous eye to a
group of homeschoolers in Southern California. Following three
families whose lives are unraveling, Greenberg lays bare the
illusions and despair of these characters, their loneliness and
longing for love. But she also shows us hope springing to life as
reliably as vacant lot weeds. Greenberg is an unapologetically
honest writer, with a sharp eye for how easily any life can veer
off course." --CAI EMMONS, author of His Mother's Son and The
Stylist "Reading Suzanne Greenberg's Lesson Plans, I was schooled
in the nuances of the human heart and privy to the most
illuminating of chalkboards. Greenberg possesses a satirist's wit
and a realist's sharp eye for details. Lesson Plans has everything:
depth, humor, insight, a compelling, page-turning story and deftly
crafted, unforgettable characters. This is a brilliant debut novel,
a completely engrossing look at contemporary suburban America."
--LISA GLATT, author of A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That and The
Apple's Bruise "All good parents want to protect their children
from the perils of the world around them. Not all parents put their
children's needs before their own. Or find the balance between the
two. A story set within the arcane world of homeschooling, rooted
in place and time and misplaced love, there are no heroes or
villains in Suzanne Greenberg's heartbreaking tale of families torn
asunder by the conflict of good intentions and desire." --PEGGY
HESKETH, author of Telling the Bees "Homeschooling will never be
the same after Suzanne Greenberg's hilarious, poignant, and
cinematic debut novel, Lesson Plans, about three families whose
lives change profoundly through the wild, exhausting, and
redemptive journey that homeschooling actually requires. This
bittersweet novel is a survival manual for intelligent parents
willing to take a hard road, and for any reader, a sheer delight."
--HOWARD NORMAN, Two-time National Book Award Finalist for The
Northern Lights and The Bird Artist
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