Claire Voyant [Paperback]

Saralee Rosenberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 26, 2004

Of course the future is a mystery. But the past? This is nuts!

Talk about ruin-your-day flights. I'm headed to Florida, when the elderly man seated next to me collapses on my tray table. I swear, if I'd known this was his final boarding call, I would have offered him my pretzels or my New York Times. But no, I was too busy feeling bloated, anxious, depressed, unloved, a failure, and did I mention bloated?

You'd be bummed too if you were almost thirty, living back home in Plainview, Long Island, with your at-war parents and loser siblings. If your acting career was such a bust your last film was an X-ray. If your boyfriend and your agent dumped you the same week, but great news! -- They're in love with each other.

Could things possibly get any worse? Do you even need to ask? That man on the flight? We were related. And my life story? Nothing like I thought. Oh, and then this fall in the shower? Opened up my psychic senses. Bottom line? I knew nothing about my real past, but suddenly my future was coming in loud and clear!

You've got to follow me on this amazing spiritual adventure that sent my life into a tailspin. I promise you love, laughter, oh-my-God secrets, and a ride to the "other side" you'll never forget. But lock the bathroom door. You're not coming out until you've heard it all.

Love, Claire

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About the Author

Saralee Rosenberg is the author of A Little Help from Above, Claire Voyant, and Fate and Ms. Fortune. She lives on Long Island (where else?) with her husband and three children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 26, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060584416
• ISBN-13: 978-0060584412
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,432,942 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Looking for a grown-up fairy tale?, November 3, 2004

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M. Garrison (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Claire Voyant (Paperback)

Almost more of a modern day, new age fairy tale than what I usually expect when I pick up some 'Chick Lit'. Despite how far out there it was, though, I stayed up half the night so I could finish the book in one sitting.

Great characters; the main character had that perfect balance of flawed and lovable.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Buoyant Claire Voyant, October 30, 2004

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Christine Ohagan "power puncher" (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Claire Voyant (Paperback)

Though some frequent flyers might fear their lives ending on an airplane, not many expect that mid-air is where their new lives might begin, but that is what happens to beautiful, self-absorbed, and unemployed fanny model, Claire Green. This is a wonderful story-although be warned that it's also quite addictive-like the old potato chip commercial, you can't read just one page. I found myself unable to stop reading, no matter how late the hour, or how early I had to get up. Claire never expects that when her flight takes off, what she's left behind is not just her family, her friends and her life - but also the person she'd always thought she'd been. CLAIRE VOYANT is not only about her search for identity, and the chance meeting with a stranger who will completely change her life's direction, but also about the ways in which we are actually all connected, and how flexible the notion of "family" really can be. This is a fabulous book - funny, warm, hopeful and wise. It takes everything you though you knew about family, dismantles it, and then puts it back together with the strongest and sweetest of glues. I loved this book and I can't recommend it highly enough. Cheers, Saralee Rosenberg, for your insightful, generous, and loving new novel.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Witty, among most satisfyingly delicious books in the genre, October 29, 2004

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Anniina Jokinen (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Claire Voyant (Paperback)

After a less-than-stellar day I had run to the bookstore for sanctuary and took this book home. Before I knew it, it was 7 am - I had not been able to put it down! I had devoured it in one sitting.

It was delightful. One of those books you read on the airplane or train or bus, and suddenly let out a huge, semi-hysterical belly-laugh that makes all your fellow passengers frightened. Filled with the kind of delicious wit where you wish you had been the first one to say it just like that, because goodness knows you thought it. It had been like spending a day with your best girlfriend, talking about all the crazy things in your life, and feeling you were understood.

What I think impressed me most, was that about a third of the way through I thought to myself: "This book is on such a high upward arc, and the tension is building and the surprises are compiling, there is no way, I fear, for the author to A) sustain it, let alone B) keep it building even more." So, I kept bracing myself for the moment when the book would fall flat and disappoint me (because let's face it, how many times has that happened in the movie theater or when reading a book).

Imagine my surprise and gratitude when the book only kept getting better, never let me down, and actually delivered on all its promises and on my high hopes for a brilliant read. Not at all a hackney'd audience-underestimating book like so many, but a literary, literate, intelligently written book with fully fleshed-out characters whose emotions and reactions were realistic even when embroiled in stranger-than-fiction circumstances. A book that provided enjoyment for the mind as well as spirit.

If you want a book that will brighten the darkest dumps and leave you in satisfied-reader heaven, this is the book.

I'm buying my best friend and mom each a copy and putting Saralee Rosenberg's name at the top of my "must-read-the-moment-the-new-book-comes-out" list of authors.