Book Doctor. Esther Cohen

      Praise for Book Doctor

      “An optimistic novel … this one transcends categories—or, in the course of proposing multiple books, falls into all of them—as we follow Arlette’s professional and personal life to a perfect conclusion.”

      —The Washington Post

      “She’s just the prescription for writers’ woes … a novel that remains light and comic throughout even as it becomes a meditation on the sometimes boring nature of love and a statement on the importance of creativity in a life … This is a narrative to remind us of the grace to be found in storytelling and a call to open ourselves up to the tale at hand.”

      —Los Angeles Times

      “A dryly humorous and tenderly observed tale, rich with insight into writer’s block and its related maladies, love and life block.”

      —Hudson Valley Magazine

      “The sudden urge to write a book often has a startling effect on the book-smitten, as it does throughout Esther Cohen’s novel, Book Doctor, set as it is at a switchboard of literary ambitions, in a marketplace for would-be books. Cohen’s characters are as deliciously varied—sharp, tender, hilarious—as they let loose their stories in that carnival of possibilities, the book spoken, but not yet written.”

      —Alistair Reid, author of Oases: Prose and Poetry

      “Cohen has assembled a collection of lovely moments and pithy observations.”

      —Kirkus Reviews

      “Will delight all book lovers and fans of screwball comedies.”

      —Booklist

      “Cohen’s novel is a gentle treatment of fragile relationships, humorously punctuated by the weird queries Arlette receives from struggling writers. Fluent, funny and true, it will particularly appeal to writers and those who must suffer them.”

      —Publishers Weekly

      “Esther Cohen has managed to write a novel that is both sardonic and affectionate, a combination that has virtually ceased to exist.