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THE GRIFT: A Novel
"Marina's second sight - and haunted loneliness - makes Debra Ginsberg's The Grift an unusually seductive thriller. Read it for the not-so-predictable deceptions and the ghostly elusiveness of love."
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"[A] rollicking novel of twists and turns. We predict you'll love it!"
-- Redbook --
grift -- n. a group of methods used for obtaining money falsely through the use of swindles, frauds, etc.
gift -- n. a special ability or capacity
What happens when a fake psychic suddenly gets the real “gift”?
Marina Marks has been on the grift as a “psychic” since she was a child, forced into the business by a junkie mother who was always desperate for her next fix–and willing to use her solemn, dark-haired daughter to peddle an extra buck. As an adult, Marina has earned a handsome living preying on the dreams and fears of her clients. She doesn’t believe there is such a thing as psychic ability, but she does believe in intuition. Her gift is the ability to gain the trust of her clients, and subtly raise her fees as they become more attached to her and her readings.
But when Marina moves her “intuitive counseling” business out of muggy, cloying Florida to the milder environs of southern California, her past follows her. As she takes on new clients – a trophy wife desperate to bear a child, a young man desperate to save his relationship with another man who can't admit that he's gay, and a philandering businessman who’s smitten with her – a former client resurfaces in an eerie way.
Suddenly, Marina is in love for the first time, but it is a romance whose roots lie deep in Marina’s past and threaten to upend the new life she’s creating for herself.
As Marina’s life gets more and more entangled with those of her clients, she makes a startling discovery: she suddenly has the ability to truly see the future. After predicting a murder exactly as it happens, she becomes the sole suspect. Now she’s
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PRAISE FOR THE GRIFT
"Ms Ginsberg shows a remarkable capacity to inhabit the minds and motives of others."
-- LIESL SCHILLINGER, The New York Times
"The Grift is a gift -- a fresh voice and story, with a winning heroine. Another triumph for Debra Ginsberg, who clearly has many gifts of her own."
-- LAURA LIPPMAN, author of What the Dead Know and Another Thing to Fall
"Debra Ginsberg has done it again in this compulsively readable, suspenseful, and very-this-worldly tale of a psychic and her desperate clientele."
-- JANET FITCH, author of White Oleander and Paint it Black
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Blind Submission
To: angel.robinson @fiammalit.com
From: ganovelist @heya.com
Subject: BLIND SUBMISSION
Dear Ms. Robinson,
You have in your hands the novel that the Lucy Fiamma Literary Agency has been waiting for. I know how demanding your boss Lucy can be, and I believe this manuscript has the potential to be your agency's next blockbuster.
It's called Blind Submission. The plot revolves around a young woman with a passion for books who becomes the assistant to a famously demanding San Francisco literary agent. She soon learns the lengths to which writers - and agents - will go to get a book deal.
Does this scenario sound familiar, Ms. Robinson? Is it beginning to sound a little bit like your own life?
If I know how literary agents think, you'll want an easy genre to classify this under. Maybe it's "Assistant Lit," or you could call it a thriller. As I continue writing, it might even turn into true crime.
Can't wait to see how this one ends...
Your fan,
G. A. Novelist
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PRAISE FOR BLIND SUBMISSION:
"A hilarious insider's look. . .Makes for a clever mystery as Ginsberg adroitly amps up the suspense." - New York Times Book Review
“Spawns insurmountable joy. . . . A cleverly told, genre-bending tale that combines intrigue, romance, a touch of mystery and strong female characters. . . . Book lovers will enjoy Ginsberg’s dead-on look at the publishing industry.” –USA Today
"The pleasure comes in waves. . .If you're a book person, give yourself a treat and take a look at Blind Submission." - Carolyn See, Washington Post Book World
“A page-turner.” –People Magazine
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About My Sisters
In About My Sisters, Debra Ginsberg examines the bonds of sisterhood with her three sisters, Maya, Lavander, and Déja. As their unconventional parents crisscrossed the world in search of the perfect place to live, Debra and her sisters developed a unique intimacy as girls, which they maintain today as women. Written in the same candid voice that captivated readers in her first two books, About My Sisters is an absorbing and heartfelt view into the complex ties of sisterhood.
Paperback – 300 pages (February 15, 2005)
Perennial; ISBN: 0060522038
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Raising Blaze: A Mother and Son's Long, Strange Journey Into Autism
From the acclaimed author of the surprise hit, WAITING: The True Confessions of a Waitress, comes a new book that unflinchingly documents her fears and frustrations as well as soaring moments of joy and satisfaction in raising her son Blaze.
Debra Ginsberg knew that her son was unique from the moment he was born. What she didn’t know was that Blaze’s differences would be regarded by others not as gifts but as impediments to his social and academic success.
Blaze never crawled; at one he simply stood up and walked. By the time he was four, he knew the complete works of Miles Davis. At five, he assigned colors to days of the week. When he turned ten, he asked to re-enact his own birth, so that this time, he could have enough breath to cry. But from his first day of kindergarten, Blaze was considered a problem in the classroom. All of his life he’s defied diagnosis by a host of experts who have sought to label him.
Writing with blistering honesty and irrepressible humor, Debra Ginsberg chronicles the extraordinary journey she has taken with her son through meetings with administrators, doctors, psychologists and a host of other professionals, all with their own ideas about what makes Blaze different and all convinced that their answers were the right ones.
A powerful advocate for her son and a compelling voice for those raising special kids, Ginsberg interweaves her moving personal story and her hard-fought battles with schools and medical professionals to create a book that speaks out to all parents. RAISING BLAZE is also a message in a bottle for all the square pegs who refuse, in one way or another, to be shaved, shoved, or squeezed into unyielding round holes.
Paperback – 320 pages (August 2003)
HarperCollins; ISBN: 0060004339
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Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress
Many people can tell horror stories about their teenage or college stints waiting tables. For Debra Ginsberg, struggling writer and single mother, waitressing has been a means of survival. And she has the scars to prove it.
In WAITING: The True Confessions of a Waitress part memoir, part social commentary, part guide to how to behave when dining out Ginsberg takes readers on an intimate journey of her twenty years as a waitress at the dingiest of diners, a soap operatic Italian restaurant, an exclusive five-star dining club, and more. While chronicling her parallel evolution as a writer and single mother, the book also takes a behind-the-scenes look at restaurant life revealing that yes, when pushed, a server will spit in food, and no, that's not really decaf you're getting and at how most people in this business are in a constant state of waiting to do something else.
Colorful, insightful, and often irreverent, Ginsberg's stories truly capture the spirit of the universal things she's learned about human nature, interpersonal relationships, the frightening things that go on in the kitchen, romantic hopes dashed and rebuilt, and all of the frustrating and funny moments in this life. Waiting is for everyone who has had to wait for their lives to begin-only to realize, suddenly, that they're living it.
Paperback - 320 pages (August 2001)
Harper Perennial; ISBN: 0060932813
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