NOW's Best Emerging Author: Lauren Kirshner

Lauren Kirshner, author of Where We Have To Go (McClelland & Stewart) and former Open Book writer in residence, has been named Best Emerging Author by NOW Magazine in their Best of Toronto list. They write about her debut novel, "[Kirshner] shows terrific powers of observation as she tracks her protagonist Lucy’s high school years, especially in a knockout section about her incarceration in a house for the 'criminally thin.' Kirshner’s funny, too. More, please." Congratulations Lauren!

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