“This novel is as American as apple pie–Texas style. Yahoo!”
—Rita Mae Brown, author of Six of One, Loose Lips, and Bingo
“I think [WORLD OF PIES] is a charming book and Karen Stolz’s talent shines forth like a jewel. Annette, Texas is a place that I believe readers will want to visit again and again.”
—Gloria Naylor, author […]
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Raves for WORLD OF PIES
Raves for FANNY & SUE
“A delightful story that brings back so many fond memories of my own childhood. I hadn’t thought about that wonderful aroma of fresh fudge for many years and when their babysitter made fudge for them on New Year’s Eve, I could practically TASTE it…..This is a book that I will highly recommend to my reading […]
Indulge in sugary ‘Fanny and Sue’
Depression-era family tale delights
By Sharyn Wizda Vane
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Sunday, March 30, 2003
If you thrill to the domestic nitty-gritty of life — what someone wore, ate or listened to — Austinite Karen Stolz’s new novel will pique your interest. If you’re a devotee of the idylls of a storybook prewar America, all the better.
If you’re a plot […]
Double the sisters, double the charm
Twins take turns narrating coming-of-age tale
Fanny and Sue
Karen Stolz (Hyperion, $22.95)
06/15/2003 By PAULA FRIEDMAN / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
In Austin writer Karen Stolz’s warm and humorous Fanny and Sue, her second novel (her first was 200l’s World of Pies), she tells the tale of twin sisters raised in St. Louis during the […]
Review: Book takes readers to time of innocence
from the Amarillo Globe-News
In this second novel, Karen Stolz returns us to a time of innocence - a time when children not only respected their parents but openly expressed their love for them, too. It was a time when family meant everything.
Following identical twins Fanny and Sue Logan during their growing up years in Stolz’s […]
Review of World of Pies in MOSTLY FICTION
A Review by Shannon Bloomstran 03-03-03
We meet the titular Fanny and Sue in 1926 as six-year olds twins, identical in every respect except personality and follow their lives until 1940. The slim story follows them through illness, accidents, and just the sheer joy of girlhood. The two love each other quite deeply, although a little […]
Reviews of WORLD OF PIES
School Library Journal
A collection of bright, lighthearted yet poignant stories about a close-knit family. The portrait of Roxanne, a small-town girl growing up in Texas in the ‘60s, begins with pie-making lessons from Mom during her 12th summer and continues until her own preteen daughter’s instruction in pastry making begins. Roxanne’s father runs a […]