"The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll
never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it."
Now in paperback, Laura Moriarty's breakthrough novel of growing up and growing wise.
Critics and readers everywhere stood up and took notice when Laura Moriarty's captivating debut novel hit the stores in June '03. Janet Maslin of the
New York Times praised The Center of Everything as "warm" and "beguiling."
USA Today compared the scrappy yet tenderhearted Evelyn Bucknow to Scout Finch in
To Kill a Mockingbird. It garnered extensive national attention; from
Entertainment Weekly to the Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle, the press raved about the wisdom and poignancy of Moriarty's writing. The Book-of-the-Month Club snatched it up as a Main Selection, as did the Literary Guild.
It was a USA Today Summer Reading Pick, a BookSense Top 10 Pick, and a BN.com book club feature title. And still, months after
The Center of Everything's original publication date, reviews and features of the book continue to run nationwide.
With a reading group guide bound into the book and a stellar hardcover publication behind it, the paperback edition of
The Center of Everything is poised to explode onto the scene again, and Evelyn Bucknow is ready to steal more hearts than ever.
The Center of Everything: A Novel
