All this heavenly glory: stories

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Crane

• Book ID: 100065228
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company;Bay Back Books/Little, Brown
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 135 KB
• Edition: 1st eBook ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0316164089

✦ Synopsis

The glittering new book from the author hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "unique, intriguing, and often hilarious."

Here are the events that make up a life: a junior high school fashion crisis, a best friend's betrayal, substance abuse, recovery, finding a satisfying career, dating fiascos, the perfect relationship, the illness and slow death of a parent. This is the life of Charlotte Anne Byers, told by Elizabeth Crane, whose debut, When the Messenger Is Hot, has been praised across the country for its humor and grace.
From the time she moved to New York as a young girl, desperate to tame her ridiculed southern accent, Charlotte Anne Byers has struggled to fit in-even while her strong will makes her clash with everything and everyone around her. With her mother pursuing a career as an opera singer and her father returning to Iowa, Charlotte is caught in the divide between her parents' dreams. She finds a touchstone in Jenna, a friend who will be by Charlotte'...