A GIRL BECOMES A COMMA LIKE THAT
290 pp., paperback
ISBN 0-7432-5775-8

"Lisa Glatt's novel is razor sharp and exceedingly funny. Reading it is sort of like acupuncture for the sexual organs—thrilling and very very dangerous. A heartfelt and troubling book about how things go wrong, time after time, and how we manage in spite of it."
—Frederick Barthelme

"Lisa Glatt's novel, with its brilliant array of female characters, does the near impossible—it says something true about all women. This is the most honest book I've ever read about the complex relationship between women and their own bodies—how they use them, and how they are betrayed by them." —Susan Perabo

"A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That is about everything that matters: love, lust, death, failure, the wish to stay in place, the ability to let go, the abiding connection between mothers and daughters. It is written with sly humor and a tender heart. This is a first novel that feels both rueful and hopeful and suggests that its author might be as endearing as she is smart." —Daphne Merkin

"Glatt had me at the title. And A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That only gets more impressive from there. A brilliant debut." —Dany Levy