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Cathleen Schine is the author of They May Not Mean to, But They Do; The Three Weissmanns of Westport; and The Love Letter, among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review. She lives in Los Angeles.
The mother of the beguilingly unusual twins whose lives unfold in this sublime comic novel could not adore them more than I do. A singular delight for anyone who has ever marveled at the quirks and beauties and frustrations of English grammar, and a fascinating portrait of the passions and dramas of fierce familial love. --Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend One might well expect a novel about dictionary-obsessed identical twins to throw off one clever, coruscating observation or bit of wordplay after another, like a kind of literary Catherine wheel. And The Grammarians certainly does that, and does it wonderfully well. Yet as I read on I found myself not only fascinated and amused--because, I must underline, it's often hugely funny--but deeply moved, because this is also a novel of great and often aching feeling. --Benjamin Dreyer, New York Times-bestselling author of Dreyer's English This is an utterly charming book, and yet more than that. It is a book of real people and their relationship--both to language and to each other. Fresh as a white sheet of paper, it is clean and lovely; an absolutely delightful read. --Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
