All This Heavenly Glory by Elizabeth Crane

It's within walking distance from the 120-year-old brick rowhouse Crane shares with her husband, sculptor and restoration carpenter Ben Brandt. Fairfax sits on an upwardly mobile stretch of Liberty Street, between Dmitri Kasterine's brick-wall installation of mural-size photographic portraits and Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site. You also spot an orange cotton jacket draped over her chair, and a cool silver purse.Ī hipster jewel box with a craft-printed menu and specialty crepes, Ms. Today's model is ivory with vivid pink roses that bring out the strawberry blond in Crane's hair. 'There was a point in Chicago about 20 years ago where a corner was turned,' she says with a mordant laugh she now owns more than 60. The acclaimed fiction writer has a jones for vintage cardigans: pearl-buttoned, beaded, floral, cashmere, lambswool, angora. You're meeting Elizabeth Crane for the first time at Newburgh's Ms. In her lifetime Charlotte finds hope and disappointment mingled with faith and desperation, laughter on the heels of weeping, and success assuaging the pain of the most embarrassing failures-her path both all her own and instantly familiar.Īll This Heavenly Glory confirms Elizabeth Crane's talents as the writer the San Francisco Chronicle called 'hilariously off kilter and utterly refreshing.' With whimsy, skepticism, and undaunted emotional frankness, she paints a dazzling portrait of one woman's unique desires and heartbreaks.Elizabeth Crane will appear May 22 at 3pm at The Golden Notebook Bookstore, Woodstock, hosted by Nelly Reifler. She finds a touchstone in Jenna, a friend who will be by Charlotte's side through the death of her mother, several failed career moves, even more failed romances, a detour into alcoholism, and finding true love. 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. 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.įrom 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.

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.

A glittering book from the author hailed by the Chicago Tribune as 'unique, intriguing, and often hilarious.'

All This Heavenly Glory by Elizabeth Crane