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"Self Storage: A Novel"
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| Member Since | 5/6/2006 | | Band Website | gaylebrandeis.com | | Band Members | Gayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperSanFrancisco), Dictionary Poems (Pudding House Press) and The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel (HarperCollins), which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change. Self Storage is her second novel. | | Influences | Early praise for Self Storage
Deftly plotted and engagingly told, Gayle Brandeis's new novel is a suspenseful, thought-provoking, and inspiring exploration of what it means to be a sensitive and thoughtful human being living in George W. Bush's America.
--Adam Langer, author of Crossing California and The Washington Story
If you doubt that a deadly serious thread -- also somehow all but laugh-out-loud funny --can connect the pillage of metal storage units, the fierce devotion to family, the rape of human sensibility, and the pursuit of art, read 'Self Storage' by Gayle Brandeis. Or better yet, just take the hand of its great-hearted and deeply bewildered heroine, Flan, and hang on for the ride.
--Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and The Breakdown Lane
Self-Storage, Gayle Brandeis's marvelous new novel, is a rare thing: a story of love, marriage and friendship that stirs our tenderest emotions without manipulation or bathos.
--Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
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Self Storage: A Novel by Gayle Brandeis, coming from Ballantine, January, 2007
Flan Parker's curious nature has translated into a thriving resale business. The secret of her success: unique and everyday treasures bought from auctions of forgotten and abandoned storage units. When Flan secures the winning bid on
a box filled only with a note bearing the word "yes", she sets out to discover the source and meaning of this mysterious message. Armed with a well-worn copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass that she turns to for guidance and solace, Flan becomes determined to find the "yes" in her own life. When her search draws her toward her Afghan neighbor--and the belief that a world of secrets lies concealed beneath the woman's burqa--Flan's personal quest unexpectedly enters a more public stage.
With humor, heart, and an electric sparkle worthy of Walt Whitman, Gayle Brandeis brings us a story of motherhood, love, and self-discovery.
"This is a novel of passion and consequence, identity and accountability. I love the narrator, her children, her wild ride, and this truly American story of getting mad and getting wise.”
--Barbara Kingsolver
"Executing a marvelous narrative sleight of hand, Brandeis uses slyly insouciant humor and irresistible characters to delve into the true significance of neighborliness, advocate for doing the right thing, and celebrate a Whitmanesque embrace of life."
--Booklist
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