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Best First Lines for 2012

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.

“The sky has become a bruised pink-blue-purple. It is late June in Oulu in northern Finland, and Midsummer…

“A highlight of the month of December for my sisters and me, growing up in New York City in the…

“She ordered me a lemonáda. For the next few weeks during that hot confusing summer, many years ago, this…

Shining Sea