Juniper Harvey and the Vanishing Kingdom.She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter. Her poetry and prose have appeared in literary magazines and her essays and poems have aired on Chicago Public Radio. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her short story Gangway: The Space Between Two Houses. Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Travelers Wife About the Author Eileen Favorite teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her MFA in writing in 1999. Its funny and tender its a chance to see Scarlett OHara and Emma Bovary off duty. Publishers Weekly Quirky: adolescent angst meets metaphysics, screwball-comedy trysts with the underpinnings of reality. Franny Glass, Madame Bovary, Scarlett OHara, Catherine Earnshaw, and others find respite from their varied cries, but must return to their books eventually and suffer the fate that awaits.Favorite offers a fun take on the impact literature can have on our lives. Review Quotes On a picturesque acreage near Prairie Bluff, Illinois, thirteen-year-old Penny Entwhistle and her mother, Anne-Marie, run a retreat where literary Heroines seek temporary refuge from their tragic destinies. Narrated by the courageous and irreverent Penny, The Heroines will make book lovers rejoice. Eileen Favorites lively, fresh, and enormously entertaining novel gives readers a chance to experience their favorite Heroines all over again, or introduces these fictional women so beguilingly that further acquaintance will surely follow. But when Penny begins to feel overshadowed by her mothers indulgence of each and every Heroine, havoc ensues, and the thirteen-year-old embarks on her own memorable tale. Knowing that to interfere with their stories would cause mayhem in literature, Anne-Marie does her best to make each Heroine feel at home, with a roof over her head and a shoulder to cry on. These visitors long for comfort, consolation, and sometimes for more attention than the adolescent Penny wants her mother to give. A lovesick Madame Bovary languishes in their hammock after Rodolphe has abandoned her, and Scarlett OHaras emotions are not easily tempered by tea and eiderdowns. They appear at all hours of the day and in all manners of distress. In this enchanting debut novel, Penny and her mother encounter great women from classic works of literature who make the Homestead their destination of choice just as the plots of their tumultuous, unforgettable stories begin to unravel. These novels, devoted to the lives of the Heroines that make them so irresistible, have a way of hitting too close to home - well, to the Homestead actually, where Anne-Marie runs the quaint family-owned bed and breakfast. Book Synopsis Although a true lover of books, Anne-Marie Entwhistle prefers not to read to her spirited daughter, Penny, especially from the likes of Madame Bovary, Gone With the Wind, or The Scarlet Letter.
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