Betty Smith’s classic novel about a resilient young Irish-American girl growing up poor in Brooklyn at the turn of the 19th to 20th century is favored reading for young adolescents, but anyone who hasn’t read it as a kid should read it as an adult. I still think back to phrases from…(Read More)
When people think about trees, most don’t immediately think of New York City. But this richly illustrated book from Benjamin Swett, former writer and photographer for the NYC Parks Department, has both the images and stories to prove their long and enduring relevance to all five boroughs…(Read More)
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Janet Hulstrand in Bonjour, Paris has this to say about An Unexpected Guest: “This is a story that stays with you… An intriguing peek into diplomatic life… fraught with tension and suspense…. Those who love Paris will delight in local detail… for all who love intelligent storytelling and thoughtful examination of the complex challenges of…(Read More)
“Sixty Seconds with Anne Korkeakivi,” a Q&A for Words with JAM e-magazine, is super brief. But I still manage to reveal something about the novel I’m currently working on…(Read More)
Northern Lights Bookstore in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, made An Unexpected Guest its Item of the Week: “A wonderful novel that possesses great elegance, surprises, and unexpected depth. A great novel.” For the full post, look here.  …(Read More)
Honored to be in this excellent company on Read Her Like An Open Book blog: ” [An Unexpected] Guest is both a closely observed character study and a stately suspense novel. Korkeakivi brilliantly explores the various ways the past continues to live inside us — and occasionally outside us.” To see the full quotation, as…(Read More)
An Unexpected Guest is a staff pick at the Kent District Library: “I loved the insight into a diplomat’s life… {T]he choices the main character made in a day were suspenseful and life-changing. Fascinating read!” To see the whole citation, please look here…(Read More)
I love this review, from A Traveler’s Library. So beautiful! And so nice: “Reading An Unexpected Guest is like standing on the shore watching the waves. As much as it seems to be just one single mass of water, it changes composition each time it comes in, stirring sand, moving shells closer to the…(Read More)
I’m happy to announce I’ll be giving a fiction-writing workshop – “Fiction, from Beginning to End” – at the Zurich Writers Workshop, May 23-25, 2014, in Zurich, Switzerland. The workshop, which will include critiques, is designed for long and short fiction writers of all levels of experience. Only twelve places, though! For more…(Read More)
My Beautiful Paris blog is holding a book giveaway of An Unexpected Guest. Readers have until February 28 to enter… For additional information, look here – and take a meander around this très charmant blog, dedicated to Paris, while there…(Read More)
