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| May/Books Do Over Photo by Bruce Christianson Heather McElhatton’s new book lets readers find out what would have been. May 2007 By Lucy Vilankulu It’s the old story. A writer spends six years pouring her heart and soul into her first novel, suffering all the indignities of part-time pay and skeptical friends and family, and enduring the suspense of shopping the book around to publishers only to be told the book isn’ t going to sell. “I wish I hadn’t told anyone I’d sent the book out,” says Heather McElhatton, recalling the painful miscarriage of her first novel. McElhatton, who had moved home to finish the book, tried to figure out where she had gone wrong. Taking up a ten-foot-square piece of linoleum, she mapped out all of her decisions (and alternatives to those decisions) since high school. What started as a self-described “self-help project gone awry” turned into Pretty Little Mistakes, which is being released this month by HarperCollins. As with Bantam’s series of Choose Your Own Adventure books for kids, Pretty Little Mistakes offers adult readers the freedom to engage themselves in the narrative by choosing the next step in the story. You face real-life situations—what to do after college, whether to marry, whether to experiment with drugs, even something as simple as whether to eat before you go to a friend’s house—with startling, thought-provoking consequences. Twin Cities–based McElhatton, who is a writer, reporter, and producer for Public Radio International, demonstrates remarkable range. Her voice is gritty, lyrical, pitiless, and compassionate, but authentic. There are moments in the book that leave you devastated and moments that make you snort with laughter. Words to the wise: This isn’t like the children’s version, which involves battling goblins and evil to rescue a princess or find a treasure. There’s violence in Pretty Little Mistakes. There’s rape, drug abuse, domestic abuse, abortion, unhappy marriages, divorce, disease, regret, and death and hell. There’s also fulfillment, tropical paradises, happy families, and lifelong love and heaven. And sticky benches, chagrin, interspecies sex, and smarmy arrangements of convenience. Just like in real life. Book signing and reading May 15. Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Mpls., 612-630- 6000, prettylittlemistakes.com Reach Lucy Vilankulu at lucyproofer@msn.com. |
