Congrats Erica
on the recent release of
No Two Persons!
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
Contemporary, Women's Fiction, 320 pages
Published May 2, 2023 by St Martin's Press
One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister’s No Two Persons is “a gloriously original celebration of fiction, and the ways it deepens our lives.”
That was the beauty of books, wasn’t it? They took you places you didn’t know you needed to go.
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice’s novel; each one discovers something different that alters their perspective, and presents new pathways forward for their lives.
Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways—and how we are all more closely connected to one another than we might think.
My thoughts about No Two Persons ~~
(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.)
First lines—"The story on Alice's computer screen had been finding its way into words for more than five years, or maybe forever."
A story about books, and about people reading books. Does it get any better than that? I don't think so. Erica Bauermeister has written some of my favorite books and I love it when she has a new one out. They are always so magical.
No Two Persons first takes us into the world of one author, just doing her thing and trying to pen some words that people might read. The story is then spun around nine readers who find the book at different points in their lives. The magical part of the story is that each reader gets something unique from the author's words and it affects each person differently. The same book for all but each reader gets what they need from those words.
The author has written a wonderful escape book as well as a story that made me think. You never know what someone is going through and how words can impact their lives at any given time. And that we each get something from every experience, and that experience is different for each of us. Oh, and also that reading is such an important part of everyone's lives.
I loved No Two Persons and if you are a reader, which you probably are since you are reading this, you are going to love it too. Power to the words!
I received a copy of No Two Persons from the publisher via NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.
About the author
Erica Bauermeister is the NYT bestselling author of five novels -- The Scent Keeper (a Reese's Book Club pick), The School of Essential Ingredients, Joy for Beginners, The Lost Art of Mixing, and a new novel, No Two Persons, due out in May of 2023. She has also written a memoir, House Lessons: Renovating a Life and is the co-author of two readers' guides: 500 Great Books by Women and Let's Hear It For the Girls. She currently lives in Port Townsend, WA with her husband and 238 wild deer. ~ Goodreads
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