I'm so thrilled with the review from Publisher's
Weekly, which singled out SILVER GIRL for a STAR, calling it "a profound, mesmerizing, and disturbing
novel." !!!!!
Here's the review:
Silver Girl
Leslie Pietrzyk. Unnamed (PGW, dist.), $17 trade
paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-944700-51-5
The latest from Pietrzyk (Pears on a Willow Tree)
is a profound, mesmerizing, and disturbing novel that delves into the vagaries
of college relationships and how the social-financial stratum one is born into
reverberates through one’s life. The unnamed narrator—hailing from a poor
family headed by an abusive father in Iowa—is befriended by her roommate, Jess,
a charismatic Chicago socialite, during their freshman year at an unnamed
university in Evanston, Ill. She wants to hide her past and reinvent herself.
Meanwhile, Jess’s father sends his mistress’s daughter to live with the two
girls after she accidentally poisons her mother. This strains the alliance
between the two young women, already tenuous because of underlying jealousies
and competitiveness. The narrator makes the same mistakes over and over again
in her personal life, and the author posits that there is a way out, but at a
cost. In addition to capturing college life on a Midwest campus, Pietrzyk
brilliantly depicts the push-and-pull dynamics between the two women, resulting
in a memorable character study. Agent: Kerry D’Agostino, Curtis Brown. (Feb.)
Here's the link so you know I'm not lying!