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The Center of Everything is a novel by Laura Moriarty. A short description and review of the book from a review website,

Evelyn Bucknow is a girl who lives with her single, welfare mother in a small town in Kansas during the 1980s. Her mother, who acknowledges her share of mistakes while she continues to make them, is often scorned and ridiculed by family and neighbors. Evelyn attends a fundamentalist church with her conservative grandparents in the search for answers until she’s put off by their narrow views and treatment of others who believe differently. A trip to the state science fair opens her eyes to the options given to those with more privilege in life. Laura Moriarity’s debut novel could have been a predictable, sentimental novel, but she never lets Evelyn become cliché or act like an adult in a teenager’s body. The Center of Everything is a story about the evolution of a girl into a woman as she tries to make sense of the world around her. It’s received warm praise from most reviewers. The Denver Post says, “Moriarty has crafted a book that clearly hits but does not bludgeon the important points that span eight years, painting a picture that is lively and endearing.”

And another review, this one from The NYT,

”The Center of Everything” takes its title from geography both physical and spiritual. At the beginning of the book Evelyn envisions herself and her hometown as central to the universe; not for nothing, she reasons, was the apocalyptic television drama ”The Day After” set nearby. By the time it is over, she is also interested in places like the Galapagos Islands, just as Darwin was. And she learns to measure other kinds of distance as well: the distance from promise to disappointment, from freedom to encumbrance, from a married man’s seductive gaze to the baby’s toys on the floor of his car.

In the end, as Ms. Moriarty eloquently illustrates in a warm, beguiling book full of hard-won wisdom, these are the dimensions that anyone must grow up to understand.

Now onto the cool stuff. We got an advance, BUT they were creative, and sent it in a little bag! You can see the advance inside the bag too.

Very cute, original, nice idea! The Center of Everything is available now so go check it out at your local independent bookshop.

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