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I love thinking about An Unexpected Guest circling the globe. One clutch of outside-North-America readership has come from the Australian edition of the novel, published by 4th Estate/HarperCollins. All Things Literary blog, from down under, just named An Unexpected Guest a Best Fiction Read of 2012. Also on the list, noted as…(Read More)

Here’s another end-of-year list, where I was really happy to find An Unexpected Guest: Best First lines for 2012. What fun and what a writerly honor. For the full list and text, look here. &nbsp…(Read More)

Top ten in Arizona

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Pinal County Libraries have chosen An Unexpected Guest for their Best Books of 2012 top-ten “Fantastic Fiction” list. To see the whole list, look here…(Read More)

An Unexpected Guest is a 2012 Literary Favorite on Eric Forbes’s Book Addict’s Guide to Good Books, and one of three nominees for Best Contemporary Fiction of 2012 at The Christian Manifesto. For links, see here and here…(Read More)

Check out the “Reading Group Guide” page of this website for a revised and greatly expanded selection of suggested questions. An Unexpected Guest offers a lot to talk about! To get there directly, look here. &nbsp…(Read More)

Hello, Russia!

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An Unexpected Guest is out in Russia. With a dreamy, dramatic Russian jacket cover – and even a Russian twist to the author’s first name! To see, look here…(Read More)

Television Debut

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An Unexpected Guest was a “Pick of the Week” on Book Case TV, season 2, episode 2, broadcast on NYC Life Channel 25 and now available on VOD. Host Frederic Colier calls the book, “a great novel from first-time author Anne Korkeakivi.” To see the review in full, look here (around 24 minutes in…(Read More)

Known in the US as The Lonely Girl, the second volume in Edna O’Brien’s Country Girl trilogy created quite a scandal when it came out in 1962. (In 1964, it was made into a film starring Rita Tushingham, Peter Finch, and Lynn Redgrave.) No longer so shocking, the story of a young Irish…(Read More)

Great New Blog Review

Genre Go Round Reviews says of An Unexpected Guest, “This is a super character driven tale that brilliantly contrasts polished…

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