| News about In the Midnight Room ‘Round Midnight re-titled In the Midnight Room in paperback– Published by Touchstone Books on August 21, 2018In the Midnight Room is an IndieNext pickPrint – Published by American Booksellers Association on January 18, 2018More than 700 booksellers chose ‘Round Midnight (In the Midnight Room) as one of the 20 books they were most excited to share with customers in May 2017. In the Midnight Room makes Best of 2017 listsPrint – Published by site on January 10, 2018Books On the Table writer puts ‘Round Midnight on his list of very favorite 2017 books, because “the writing is gorgeous and the story is perfectly paced and constructed.” Popular NPR book reviewer Nancy Pearl urges book groups to read ’Round Midnight, while the inimitable Blue Willow Bookshop (Houston) spoke of ‘Round Midnight‘s “love, loss, redemption, and ultimately hope” in naming it a Best of 2017 book. California’s Diesel Books owner John Evans notes the novel’s “compassion, humor, and intelligence,” calling it “good reading of the highest order.” ‘Round Midnight also made the cut for Favorite Books of 2017 at Books on the Table, Fit and Beautiful, Read Her Like an Open Book, and Start With a Story (which called it “simply luminous”). It was a staff favorite at Simon & Schuster and one of 2017’s ten most popular reviews on Off the Shelf. A national tour for In the Midnight RoomPrint – Published by Simon & Schuster on June 25, 2017Touchstone Books sent Laura on an 18-city national tour for ‘Round Midnight in May 2017. Off the Shelf: “A new kind of Great American Novel”Print – Published by Off The Shelf on June 23, 2017BookPage: “Haunting and unpredictable . . . a jewel of a novel”Print – Published by BookPage on June 21, 2017Salt Lake Tribune: “A richly textured story about race”Print – Published by Salt Lake Tribune on May 15, 2017Dallas Morning News: “A dangerous romance”Print – Published by Dallas Morning News on May 11, 2017Denver Post: “History shines through”Print – Published by Denver Post on May 11, 2017Daily Californian: “Equal parts intricate and graceful”Print – Published by The Daily Californian on May 6, 2017 |
