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Texting Olivia

By: Galya Gerstman

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Paperback | 1 December 2021

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200 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.07

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Texting Olivia is a funny, fast-paced, modern take on the epistolary novel, using phone texts and calls instead of letters as the main form of communication.

Fay is a paralegal in her forties with thwarted career ambitions, which she blames on her mother. Indeed, she has done almost everything opposite to her own upbringing in raising Olivia. But Fay's assumptions about what it means to be a good mother-and also a good daughter-are put to the test when she and her husband take a madcap trip from New Jersey to San Francisco to help Olivia move out of her dorm.

Industry Reviews

"A daughter's growing independence forces a mother to confront, for the first time, her own fight for acceptance and freedom as a daughter herself. Humorous and painful by turns, lively, engaging." -Shelley Salamensky, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Harvard University

"Texting Olivia is a sharply written, highly entertaining comedy of errors.... Gerstman leaves us wondering...about our own inter- generational relationships." -Mark Schrieber, author of Amanda911 and the Twitter President

"A modern, witty, yet heartbreakingly honest portrayal of what it means to be a mother-and a daughter. Beautifully written, with surprising turns around every corner." -Pauline Harris Editorial

"Epistolary novels like The Color Purple and White Tiger have redefined novel writing. So too has Galya Gerstman in her humorous and original text and tweets novel where characters say all that they can in brief and compelling ways. We the reader are privvy to the quick paced funny modern life she tells so well." -Esther Cohen is the author of BOOK DOCTOR and six other books

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