A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That

I bought this book because I loved the title, and the story line seemed passable (I was trying to get away from the dark horror I usually read). What I found was a novel that stired my soul and made me re-read passages so that what Glatt was saying would stick to my bones. I rarly find a book that hits this close to home. Stories about three seperate woman whose lives are linked by association the book skips back and forth... Read Full Review

Lisa Glatt's book is not chick lit or anything close to it. If you want to read about shopping and fashion and silly girl crushes, go elsewhere. This is serious literature, about cancer and looming death and unavoidable loneliness, and the dark, sad, sometimes sleezy, places depressed women go to hide as a result. Glatt is an honest writer. Beautifully honest. In fact, she makes tragedy almost appealing.

We all want our lives to work out a certain way. To be a certain way. But life is messy. And how we handle things often shows we have no idea what we're doing or how to make things better. The women in "A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That" are no exception. And that's what makes them so incredibly relateable. So incredibly real. They make mistakes. They reach out looking for answers in places they may never get them. ... Read Full Review

The following is an excerpt from my column, a monthly review of first novels published in the New York Journal News. I'm posting it here because Glatt's novel is among the best debuts I've ever read - it deserves all the accolades and praise it has received, and then some - and I think everyone should know about it. Lisa Glatt's first novel (she previously published two collections of poetry), entitled A Girl Becomes A Comma... Read Full Review