Jessica Anya Blau‘s fifth novel is a coming-of-age story set in Baltimore. The author is as much of a delight as her protagonist.
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Top-notch comic writing … and then some
Nick Hornby (About a Boy) says of Baltimore writer, Jessica Anya Blau:
Blau has a steady nerve, as well as a wicked imagination . . . It takes you a little while to realize that what you’re reading is top-notch comic writing because you’re getting all the stuff you normally get in literary fiction as well: rites of passage, the complications of fractured families, the works.
Now, Jessica has published her 4th novel, The Trouble with Lexie. She came to talk to us about it.
