Lisa Glatt Books In Order

The One and Only

Readers of all kinds will fall in love with the precocious, adorable Abigail Iris!

Abigail Iris is sick of being One of Many brothers and sisters, that is. She d rather be an Only, like all her best friends, and not have to compete with siblings for time or attention. So Abigail is thrilled when she joins her friend Genevieve’s family on a trip to San Francisco. She gets to stay in a fancy hotel, visit Chinatown, order room service and she doesn t have to share anything with her pesky older siblings! Amid all the fun, though, Abigail discovers that having a set of parents to yourself might be nice some of the time, it just isn t right for Abigail all of the time. An adorable story for Onlies and One of Many alike starring a one of a kind new character!

The Pet Project

Abigail Iris has a half birthday coming up, and she knows it’s the perfect excuse to ask for the adorable kitten up for adoption at her local farmer s market. After all, everyone else in her life seems to be getting something new: her Only friend Rebecca has a new baby brother on the way, and her brother Eddie has a new girlfriend named Molly. But Abigail finds that once the kitten is hers, he brings with him lots of new responsibilities and life lessons, too. Full of new beginnings, last good byes, and fresh starts, Abigail Iris: The Pet Project has just as much joy and heart as the first adventure.

A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That

Hauntingly observant and insightful, this poignant debut novel delves into the intricate bonds between mothers and daughters and offers an unflinching, darkly funny look at the relationships between love, sex, and death. Rachel Spark is an irreverent, sexually eager, financially unstable thirty year old college instructor who moves back home when her mother is diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. As she tries to ease her mother, a perpetually cheerful woman, toward the inevitable, Rachel turns from one man to the next sometimes comically, sometimes catastrophically as if her own survival depended upon it. ‘If I slept only with men who knew my full name, if I signed up for dance clas*ses, if I ate more fruit even then there was no guarantee I’d get what I wanted,’ she thinks. And so she goes off with Johnny, who wears ‘all silk: black silk pants, a red silk shirt, even a silk band holding his hair in a ponytail.’ Or with Adam, an old boyfriend who remembers her with a bob she never had and tries to seduce her in his car with dark tinted windows. Regardless of her unsuitable and unlikely bedmates, Rachel can’t distract herself from what she knows about cancer that it disappears or returns, seemingly with a will of its own. But Rachel’s not the only one struggling with the uncertain turns life takes…
Ella Bloom, an adult student in Rachel’s poetry class, aspires to more than her work at a local family planning clinic. But she spends her nights wondering why her husband kissed one of her colleagues and whether it will lead to a full fledged affair, and she is also preoccupied with one of her repeat patients, Georgia, a teenager who frequents the clinic and has a story of her own. What they all have in common is their desire for love, despite its many obstacles. A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That is a novel rife with wit and compassion. A provocative, assured new voice in literary fiction, Lisa Glatt knows the yardsticks by which we constantly measure our world and ourselves devotion, lust, forgiveness, and courage.

The Apple’s Bruise

From the bestselling author of A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That, a moving, disturbing, and utterly original collection of stories that examine a universe where memory and fact collide, and the imagination fills in the gaps left behind.

The stories in The Apple’s Bruise take a smart and unflinching look at love, frailty, and happiness and prove beyond doubt that Glatt is a modern master at blending heartbreak and hilarity. In ‘Dirty Hannah Gets Hit by a Car,’ a seven year old girl bullied by a neighbor across the street gains strength after a serious accident; in ‘Animals,’ a zoo veterinarian from a family of butchers tries at once to deal with his marital problems and the high rate at which his animals are dying; and in ‘Soup,’ a young widow tries to reconcile her feelings for her teenage son’s friend, the town delinquent.

With tenderness, insight, and humor, Glatt casts her gaze simultaneously on the beauty and the absurdity of our humanity, creating unforgettable portrayals of unusual characters and the complexities of desire and fidelity that compel them.