Randy Susan Meyers's Reviews
Reviews of Randy Susan’s Work
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Mar.02.2010
Published by The Miami Herald
The debut novel by Randy Susan Meyers -- whose family hails from Miami -- dives fearlessly into a tense and emotional story of two sisters anchored to one irreversible act of...
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Mar.14.2010
Published by The Denver Post
The shadow of one despicable act proves all but impossible to overcome. Meyers, in a remarkably assured debut, details how the sisters process their grief in separate but...
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Jan.07.2010
Published by Jamaica Plain Gazette
Jamaica Plain resident Randy Susan Meyers’ first novel, released this month by St. Martin’s Press, was inspired by a horrific event in her own childhood and colored by years of...
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Jan.17.2010
Published by The Boston Globe
For all the years that Randy Susan Meyers counseled male batterers, there was one question that stuck with her. “What about the children?’’ she wondered. “They were sleeping’’...
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Jan.10.2010
Published by Boston Globe
Randy Susan Meyers’s sensitive story about the legacy of domestic violence is painful to read at times, but unforgettable. Randy Susan Meyers delivers a clear-eyed, insightful...
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Nov.01.2009
Published by Kirkus Review
Ten-year-old Lulu and eight-year-old Merry are caught up in adult turmoil when their father murders their mother in July 1971. Over the subsequent three decades, Lulu feels...
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Published by Publishers Weekly
This solid novel begins with young Lulu finding her mother dead and her sister wounded at the hands of her alcoholic father, who has failed at killing himself after attacking the...
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Nov.01.2009
Published by Library Journal
Lulu and Merry, ages ten and six, respectively, live with parents for whom marriage is a permanent battleground. One summer day in 1971, their father fatally stabs their mother in...
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“…sharp and biting, and sometimes wickedly funny when the author skewers Boston’s class and neighborhood dividing lines, but it has a lot of heart, too. Meyers writes beautifully about a formerly good marriage — the simple joys of stability, the pleasures of veteran intimacy — and deftly dissects just how ugly things can get after infidelity.”
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—Boston Globe
About Randy Susan
The drama of Randy Susan Meyers' novels is informed by her work with violent offenders and families impacted by emotional and family violence. Raised in Brooklyn, Randy now lives in Boston with her husband, where she teaches writing seminars for Grub Street...
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Causes Randy Susan Meyers Supports
Jane Doe
Women for Women
Rosie's Place
New England Home for Little Wanderers
Fistula Foundation