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Tamara Anderson has too much to worry about for a 15-year-old girl in 1954: a sick mother, a detached, dreamy father, needy younger siblings, and - most oppressively - a life as nomadic as a family's on the lam. "We move each spring, like birds migrating, except we don't go back to a familiar place. We never go back. We pack up who we are and the few things that cling to us, and drive away. We are good at packing. Good at leaving behind." It's her father's fault, his self-imposed occupational hazard. "He paints pictures that get hung in galleries in New York City," Tamara explains. "He paints landscapes. . . . We find houses to rent, then leave them behind like a snake sheds its skin. My father outgrows the landscapes. He needs new lines, new hues, new inspiration."

What makes Sarah Willis's first novel, "Some Things That Stay," such a prize is precisely the endearing form of dysfunction the family practices, and the voice that reports it. As the teenage daughter of two free spirits, Tamara is both pragmatic and prickly. "My mother doesn't know how to carry on a normal conversation either, but that doesn't stop her. . . . People think she's charmingly eccentric. My mother loves my father, more than us, more than herself, and he loves her, even more than art, so I forgive him his trespasses. He loves us, too, but we come after art.

By: Elinor Lipman|Date: Feb 6, 2000

If you're like me, you don't need prompting to pick up a novel set in the Catskills. The proper noun alone tickles the length of the anatomical region between the funny bone and stomach, promising a tale of food, jokes, and boisterous Jews. Eileen Pollack, author of "The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories," has written about the tragicomic final season in the life of a family-owned white elephant of a hotel -- a novel long on wonderful writing, sharp details, and no-nonsense nostalgia.

While "Paradise, New York" succeeds in its mind and heart, it falters in the connective tissue that makes a story into a whole. Disconcertingly, in key moments, characters act and react in over-broad and unearned ways that simply don't ring true.

By: Elinor Lipman|Date: Nov 22, 1998

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo (pictured) will sit on the "Ties that Bind" panel with Michael Thomas and Elinor Lipman. 11 a.m. at the Old South Church SanctuaryDate: Oct 22, 2009

...festival fare. Writers such as Dennis Lehane, Skip Gates, Joe Finder, Tom Perrotta, Anita Diamant, Stephen Carter, Elinor Lipman, Walter Isaacson, Robert Pinsky, and Chris van Allsburg will attend and chat. And there will be programs for children...