Deb Caletti is an award-winning author and a National Book Award
finalist whose books are published and translated worldwide. Her first novel
was The Queen of Everything (Simon & Schuster, 2002),of which a starred
review in Publisher’s Weekly proclaimed: “This marks Caletti as a writer to
watch.” Although written for adults, its coming-of-age themes gained it acclaim
as a Y/A book. It made the cover of the esteemed review journal The Bulletin
for the Center of Children’s Books (the first trade book to do so in the journal’s
history), and then was chosen for PSLA’s Top Forty of 2003 and the
International Reading Association’s Young Adult Choices for 2004. It is
currently in its thirteenth printing.
Deb’s second book, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, was a finalist for the National
Book Award. Kirkus called it, “tender and poetic,” and the book earned other
distinguished recognition, including the PNBA Best Book Award, the Washington
State Book Award, and School Library Journal’s Best Book award. It was a
finalist for the California Young Reader Medal and the PEN USA Literary Award,
and was also a 2005 IRA Notable Book, an SSLI Book Awards Honor Book, and made
the New York Public Library’s Best Books for the Teen Age, Chicago Library’s
Best Books of 2004, and the Texas TAYSHA’s list. Her third book, Wild Roses,
won acclaim with starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, which deemed it,
“rich,” and School Library Journal, which said the book was “multifaceted and
emotionally devastating,” with “profound observations and vivid language.” It
was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and was chosen as a New York
Public Library Book for the Teen Age and a RT Book Club Magazine’s finalist for
Best Y/A Book of 2005. The Nature of Jade was a summer 2007 Booksense pick, a
Books A Million Book Club selection, and was a finalist for RT Magazine’s Best
Y/A Book of the Year.
Her fifth book, The Fortunes of Indigo Skye, was released April 2008, followed
by The Secret Life of Prince Charming in 2009, The Six Rules of Maybe in 2010,
Stay in 2011, and The Story of Us in 2012. In addition, several anthologies
include work by Deb, including “First Kiss, Then Tell,” a Bloomsbury anthology
benefiting NPR Youth Radio, and two collections of non-fiction critical essays
developed by Borders Books: “The World of the Golden Compass” and “Through the
Wardrobe: Your Favorite Authors on C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia.” In 2013,
Deb’s first book for adults, He’s Gone, will be released from Random House.
Deb grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and earned her journalism degree from
the University of Washington in Seattle. When Deb is not writing books or
reading them, she is a painter and a lyricist, and speaks widely to audiences
on writing and life as an author. Deb lives with her family in Seattle.
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“What do you think happened to your husband, Mrs. Keller?”
The Sunday morning starts like any other, aside
from the slight hangover. Dani Keller wakes up on her Seattle houseboat, a
headache building behind her eyes from the wine she drank at a party the night
before. But on this particular Sunday morning, she’s surprised to see that her
husband, Ian, is not home. As the hours pass, Dani fills her day with small
things. But still, Ian does not return. Irritation shifts to worry, worry
slides almost imperceptibly into panic. And then, like a relentless blackness,
the terrible realization hits Dani: He’s gone.
As the police work methodically through all the
logical explanations—he’s hurt, he’s run off, he’s been killed—Dani searches
frantically for a clue as to whether Ian is in fact dead or alive. And, slowly,
she unpacks their relationship, holding each moment up to the light: from its
intense, adulterous beginning, to the grandeur of their new love, to the
difficulties of forever. She examines all the sins she can—and cannot—remember.
As the days pass, Dani will plumb the depths of her conscience, turning over
and revealing the darkest of her secrets in order to discover the hard
truth—about herself, her husband, and their lives together.
My Review:
Dani wakes up to find her husband gone. She thinks he is out for coffee or has gotten held up by visiting a friend but as the day goes she knows something worse has happen to him. She finds his car and the only things missing are his phone, wallet, and the clothes he had on the day before. Dani doesn’t know if he’s been in an accident, left her, or worse.
This book has left me with mixed emotions. Deb’s writing is so good and she writes her characters so well. We really feel all off Dani’s emotions as she is going through her marriage trying to figure out everything and just what happened to her husband. It takes an emotional toll on not only her but the reader as well. I keep thinking I had it figured out what had happened but it still got me when Dani figures it out.
This isn’t as much as a mystery book to me as a look through Dani’s life through her own eyes. I am looking forward to reading more adult books from Deb in the future. 4/5 Bloody Fangs
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~Sabrina
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