Praise for Sheri Joseph’s Stray
Winner of Grub Street’s first annual Fiction Book Prize
“Joseph tells an intense story about an unconventional love triangle… a swiftly moving [and] compelling tale of reconciliation and redemption as the lovers are forced to face their flawed perceptions head-on.” – Booklist
“…a unique and enticing look at a love triangle…seductive and convincing.” – Pages Magazine
“It’s a testament to Joseph’s nuanced writing and sensitive insight that she can create such a fragile but convincing triangle and evoke such empathy from the reader…Stray is the best story of a mixed gender three-person love affair since Michael Cunningham’s A Home at the End of the World.” – Ken Furtado, Echo Magazine
“[Stray] is a telling book that reveals how complex the construction of appearance and identity can be in contemporary society…Joseph has a good insight into the smaller moments of close relationships, the everyday conversations between lovers that speak more about the two people involved.” – Lexington Herald-Leader
“Joseph’s potent tale of sexual deception and emotional redemption is a seductive stew of love story and murder mystery about three fundamentally fine, and gratifyingly complex, people.” – Richard LaBonte, San Francisco Bay Guardian
“With great skill and psychological insight, Sheri Joseph has crafted a highly compelling mystery about the duplicitous nature of what we call love: its tender cruelties and its potential for placing us all in mortal danger.” – Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes and The Whole World Over
“Sheri Joseph’s three characters are as real as anybody I know, caught up in the rapturous human business of hope and beguilement and self-deception. Stray is mesmerizing. Sheri Joseph has written a seductive, frightening book.” – Jennifer Haigh, author of Baker Towers and Mrs. Kimble
“In the intricately plotted Stray, Sheri Joseph spins a web of such psychological acuity that I could never decide which of her three beguiling characters to sympathize with next. The result is a novel of considerable moral complexity and marvelous suspense.”
– Margot Livesey, author of Eva Moves the Furniture and Banishing Verona
Public Appearances
2/16-18/2007 Dahlonega Literary Festival Dahlonega, GA
2/22/07 Outwrite Books 8pm Atlanta, GA
2/28-3/3/2007 AWP Conference Atlanta, GA (signing at the book fair)
3/14/07 Happy Ending Reading Series 7:30pm New York, NY
4/5/07 GSU (Georgia State Univ) Troy Moore Library 7:30pm Atlanta, GA
4/27/07 A Different Light Bookstore 7pm San Francisco, CA
4/28/07 Bookshop West Portal 7pm San Francisco, CA (with Michelle Richmond)
5/3/07 Grub Street Prize celebration, TBA, Boston, MA
5/4-5/6/07 Muse and the Marketplace Boston, MA
