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Bookmark or Share- Books – Elizabeth Berg“Heartwrenching…hilarious….Berg sits somewhere between Anne Tyler and Alice Hoffman.” –Chicago Sun-Times “Berg’s writing is to literature what Chopin’s etudes are to music–measured, delicate, and impossible to walk away from until their completion.” –Entertainment Weekly
- Tapestry of Fortunes – Elizabeth BergWhat’s it About? A motivational speaker who isn’t great about taking her own advice finally does. After a catastrophic event, she moves out of her large, well-appointed house into a house she shares with three other women.
- We Are All Welcome Here – Elizabeth BergThe book came about in a very unusual way. I received a letter from a fan named Marianne Burke asking me to write about her mother, who, like the character in the book, got polio when she was pregnant—in fact, she delivered Marianne in an iron lung.
- Awards & Honors – Elizabeth BergElizabeth Berg has been on the New York Times Bestseller list multiple times. Durable Goods and Joy School were both selected as one of the American Library Association’s Best Books of the Year. Talk Before Sleep was shortlisted for the Abby (American Bookseller’s Book of the Year).
- About Elizabeth – Elizabeth BergAbout Elizabeth I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on December 2, 1948, in a hospital that has been torn down, which I’m pretty steamed about. When I was three years old, my father reenlisted in the Army, and I spent my growing up years moving around a lot—twice, I went to three schools in a single academic year.
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