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Suzzy Roche is a singer/songwriter/performer/author and founding member of the singing group The Roches. She has recorded more than fifteen albums, written music for TV and film, and toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe. In addition to The Town Crazy, Roche is the author of the novel Wayward Saints and the children's book Want to Be in a Band?
You'll step right into this page-turner of a romp-with-oddball-heart because you've known these characters forever, and by the end of the novel, you'll consider every last insecure one of them your friend. --Nancy Burke, Author of Undergrowth The Town Crazy casts a strong spell, and I don't think I've shaken it off yet, nor do I want to. Suzzy Roche understands so much about other people's lives; her fiction, just like her singing and songwriting, is thrilling, beautiful, and shattering. I will be thinking about this town, these people, this captivating novel, for a long time. --Meg Wolitzer, Author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, and The Wife For the author's previous novel, WAYWARD SAINTS: Wayward Saints is funny, smart, poignant, the prose so clear, so direct, so true. This book is a joy. --Jane Hamilton, author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World Wayward Saints is full of wonderful observations about family, fame, guilt, aging, the stupid music business, and the power and glory of performing and creating. Most importantly, Suzzy Roche has written a book about love and redemption. And it's funny! I loved the little details and the big surprises. --Loudon Wainwright, Grammy-winning songwriter [Roche's] language is dazzling--unpredictable, supremely funny, irreverent, and full of authority. Wayward Saints is the best and most surprising debut novel I've read since I can't remember when. --Rosellen Brown, author of Half a Heart and Before and After If you've ever had the privilege of hearing Suzzy Roche sing, you know all about her perfect pitch, her angel's voice, her subtle wit. Her masterful debut novel, Wayward Saints, mines these same prodigious gifts. When Mary Saint, a once-promising indie rocker, is invited to perform in her hometown, where her mother, Jean, still holds court, the two are forced into a long-deferred reckoning: with each other and with the demons of their past. This is a golden-threaded tale of redemption, of the transformative powers of art, and of the mysteries, pains, and sacrifices of love. --Deborah Copaken Kogan, author of Hell Is Other Parents and The Red Book Spoiler alert: this book is wonderful from beginning to end. I loved every page. --Patricia Marx, author of Starting from Happy
