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Sharp, quirky, and deeply tender, you'll laugh out loud at The Pajama Girls [of Lambert Square]. -- Jacqueline Mitchard
Rosina Lippi was born and raised in Chicago, but she has lived for longer periods in the Austrian alps, on the East coast (where she earned a PhD in linguistics from Princeton) and Michigan. After twelve years as a tenured professor -- getting up early and staying up late to write fiction -- she took heart in hand and left academia. These days she writes full time from her home on Puget Sound, where she lives with her husband (the Mathematician), daughter (the Girlchild), Tuck and Bunny (the puppy boys) and the Girlchld's two cats. She divides her time between her next novel, family, friends, television and textile arts.
Sara Donati is Rosina's alterego. Sara lives only to write the Wilderness series (all published by Bantam in hard and soft cover). She has her own website.
[with Tied to the Tracks] Lippi turns her buoyant creative talents to the romantic comedy genre with an effervescent tale of a trio of offbeat Yankee filmmakers plunked down deep in the heart of Dixie. --Booklist
An intelligent romp. --Kirkus
One is reminded of Garcia-Marquez's Hundred Years of Solitude, where the names also recur from one generation to the next, and whose style is similarly simple yet profound, honest and yet soothing. -- Dylan Evans
Rosina Lippi is one of those impassioned storytellers who moves us to tears and makes us grateful for it. Reading Homestead, I felt some deep, tender part of me touched and made stronger. It is a heartbreakingly beautiful piece of work. --Dorothy Allison
