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GIVEAWAY: 2 Copies of The Local News by Miriam Gershow

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Hi everyone, I just reviewed The Local News by Miriam Gershow earlier today and you can see my review here if you’d like. It’s an emotional read about the impact on a family when one their own disappears. I was lucky enough to end up with an extra copy and I’m going to offer up my own copy too-so that’s 2 hardcover copies up for grabs.

Here’s a bit about the book (taken from the TLC Book Tours site)…

“Going missing was the only interesting thing my brother had ever done.”

Even a decade later, the memories of the year Lydia Pasternak turned sixteen continue to haunt her. As a teenager, Lydia lived in her older brother’s shadow. While Danny’s athletic skills and good looks established his place with the popular set at school, Lydia’s smarts relegated her to the sidelines, where she rolled her eyes at her brother and his meathead friends and suffered his casual cruelty with resigned bewilderment. Though a part of her secretly wished for a return of the easy friendship she and Danny shared as children, another part of her wished Danny would just vanish. And then, one night, he did.

In the year following Danny Pasternak’s disappearance, his parents go off the rails, his town buzzes with self-indulgent mourning, and his little sister Lydia finds herself thrust into unwanted celebrity, forced to negotiate her ambivalent–often grudging–grief for a brother she did not particularly like. Suddenly embraced by Danny’s old crowd, forgotten by her parents, and drawn into the missing person investigation by her family’s intriguing private eye, Lydia both blossoms and struggles to find herself during Danny’s absence. But when a trail of clues leads to a shocking outcome in her brother’s case, the teenaged Lydia and the adult she will become are irrevocably changed, even now as she reluctantly prepares to return to her hometown.

Relentlessly gripping, often funny, and profoundly moving, The Local News is a powerful exploration of the fraught relationship between a brother and sister and how our siblings define who we are.

For more information on The Local News, including a Reading Group Guide and an excerpt, check out the author’s website HERE.

About the author (taken from the TLC Book Tours site)…

Miriam Gershow is a novelist, short story writer and teacher. Her debut novel, The Local News, was published in February 2009. It has been called “deftly heartbreaking” with “urgency and heft” by The New York Times, as well as “an accomplished debut” (Publisher’s Weekly) with a “disarmingly unsentimental narrative voice,” (Kirkus Reviews).

Miriam Gershow graduated from the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Oregon and was a Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her stories have appeared in the Georgia Review, Black Warrior Review, andQuarterly West, among other literary journals. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she is a college instructor with the English Department at The University of Oregon.

GIVEAWAY: What do you need to do to enter…

  • For 1 entry leave me a comment with a way to contact you.
  • For 2 entries follow my blog, if you do-thanks-and let me know in your comment so I can pass on the extra entry to you.
  • For 3 entries blog/tweet this giveaway to spread the word.

This giveaway is open internationally to all my readers! I will draw for the winners on Friday, July 31, 2009. Good luck to everyone!

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  1. I hate to be the first comment because they never seem to win but I really want to read this because I've read such great reviews of it.

    I'm a follower too.

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  2. I read the review and it sounds interesting. Please include me in the giveaway.
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  4. I also read your review, so now I have to read this book!

    I am a follower, too.

    Margay

  9. I'd love for a chance to win this book! Thanks for hosting the giveaway!

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    I follow and will blog about your giveaway in my sidebar.

    Thanks, Dar!

  10. No need to enter me, darling. I'm dropping in 'cause I love you.

    And to say thanks for the e-mail. I've got this posted at Win a Book for ya.

  19. I'd love a chance to read this book. Please enter me, thank you. I have been a follower for some time.

  20. I am interested in reading this now. Your review & post had something to do w/ it.

    You are so generous to give your copy away.

    I tweeted this & am a follower. I will be posting this in a few secs.

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    Thank you :].

  21. As I said in your review post, I have had this book on my list, having caught my eye in an earlier review. Please enter me! You can reach me at rnawrot at cfl dot rr dot com. I am a loyal follower!

  23. Hi! I just discovered your blog via The Book Resort, and am about to start following you.

    Please enter me for the contest, it is rare for me to stumbling upon one that is open to international readers.

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  24. Thanks for the good review of this book. I'd love to read it. Thanks for the giveaway and please count me in.

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  28. I would love an opportunity to read this book. Please include me in the giveaway:
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  29. +1 Please enter me. 🙂

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  30. I'd like a chance to read this thanks.

    I'm a follower thanks.
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  31. I am a follower, thank you for the international giveaway Dar!

    So very nice of you!

    I am a follower! and I have blogged abou this on my sidebar 🙂

    Have a great day!

  38. I've read some reviews of this book and also check yours. I'm interesting in this book. Please count me in. 😀
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  40. I really enjoyed your review of this book. please do enter me. I follow you via google reader if that counts.
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    Thanks for keeping it international

  42. Although I know people deal with it daily, I can't imagine a family member just disappearing. The book sounds fascinating.

  43. I'd love to read this. Please count me in!
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  51. Please enter me in the giveaway.
    I am an International entry !

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  56. I follow with Google Friend Connect too!
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  62. Please enter me–it sounds great. Thanks!

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  63. I already follow your blog via Blogger–thank you!

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  65. This sounds interesting like a book I would love to read. It is subject not usually covered in books.
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  68. This book sounds interesting. I would like to be entered in the giveaway

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  69. I'd love a chance to win this book, so please enter me!

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  70. I am also a follower of this blog. By the way, thanks for hosting this great giveaway!!

  76. Please include me in this giveaway, Dar. You are killing me with such great books!

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    I am a follower too. 🙂

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  90. I really enjoyed Deep End of the Ocean and this sounds like a similar great bbook.
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  105. I can't even imagine the profound effect it would have on a teenager who wishes some kind of ill will on a sibling in anger or just when feeling crabby and then it comes true. I can see how it could almost instantly change the person you were becoming or completely halt your growth. I think it would definitely cause the teen an awful lot of confusion. This book sounds very intriguing!

    I'm a follower of your blog =o)

    Thank you for hosting this giveaway!
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  106. This sounds like a heartbreaking but compulsive read. I'd love for it to keep me up turning the pages!

    I'm also a subscriber!

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  114. I can really relate to the subject of this book and I would really like to read it. Thanks!

    Also a follower.

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  117. Do count me in.
    The book looks rather good.

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  129. Hi I also lived in my brother's shadow even though I was the oldest in the family. Would love to read this. MarionG polo-puppy-fluffy at hotmail dot com