In Everything Is Broken

Princess Harriet Hamsterbone is not the kind of princess who enjoys fancy dresses or extravagant parties

Conversations between sisters reveal a deep and constant tug between two dynamics--an impulse toward closeness and an impulse toward competition

Or a mother

Band of Misfits

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading Historical Figures In Everything Is BrokenWhen Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one. She was whisked away to Narnia, and Kirrin Island, and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. With Charlottes Web she discovered Death and with Judy Blume it was Boys. No wonder she only left the house for her weekly trip to the library. In Bookworm, Lucy brings the