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Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel (A Do-Over Novel, 1) Paperback – May 1, 2007

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Adults who remember the Choose Your Own Adventure YA novels are the target audience for this debut from Public Radio International producer McElhatton. The book opens with a female second person's high school graduation, which leads "you" to two possible choices: travel or college. Each succeeding section (mostly between one and four pages) similarly offers two options for proceeding, leading to an impressive array of possible developments, from a trip to Rome that can result in a live-in Italian artist boyfriend, to a dead-end job as a phone sex operator with the moniker of Stormy Sioux. Situations include the playfully surreal, such as a stint in a German circus as a nude ice dancer, and the tender, as in a life lived on the Iceland coast with a lovely, seal-obsessed child who has Down syndrome and a devoted scientist husband. There's also crystal meth addiction, rape, death by explosion, bursts of salty humor and moments of descriptive lyricism, especially in McElhatton's many vivid imaginings of the afterlife ("heaven is a junk shop... broken beauty everywhere"). Nevertheless, many situations are cartoonish; some of the events repeat or overlap; and "You" remains a cipher, making this "Do-Over Novel" more role-playing for the rut-stuck than a good read. (May)
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Remember the day of your high-school graduation, when the future positively percolated with possibilities? That's the moment of truth independent radio producer McElhatton seeks to recapture in this do-it-yourself debut boasting "one beginning, 150 endings." Like the Choose Your Own Adventure novels for young adults, this interactive offering puts readers in the driver's seat from page 1, when they must decide whether to attend college or travel. Wanderlusts might find themselves shacked up with an Italian sugar daddy or operating an award-winning Sicilian B and B. (They might also get knocked up by a swarthy janitor at a seedy Santa Monica motel or killed by a pipe-bomb while working as a relief doctor in Chad.) The academically inclined can wind up a successful feminist jeweler or a Denny's waitress felled by a piping-hot bowl of pea soup. In the end, McElhatton's first offering (inspired by failure to get her first novel published) reads more like tongue-in-cheek career counseling than serious literature. Still, dabbling in thoughts of one's destiny proves amusing in small doses (most entries are just a handful of pages). Allison Block
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow Paperbacks (May 1, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 504 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061133221
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061133220
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.2 x 5.3 x 1.2 inches
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(McElhatton rhymes with TACKLE-LATIN, if that helps.)

Heather McElhatton is a writer and independent producer for Public Radio International. Her commentaries and

stories have been heard nationally on This American Life, Marketplace, Weekend America, Sound Money and The

Savvy Traveler. She also produced the radio literary series Talking Volumes. Heathers audio archive can be found at www.mpr.org

She has had several short stories published, including 'Red Shoes' which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2001. Writer/publisher Joyce Carol Oates published the story in

Princeton's literary magazine, The Ontario Review thatsame year.

Heather's new radio show is called STAGE SESSIONS and is held in front of a live audience at the Fitzgerald Theater in St Paul, Minnesota. The show is aired on Minnesota Public Radio a week later. Guests have included Sebastian Junger, Ann Bancroft, Bill Holm and Robert Bly. Their work is combined with other musicians, poets and humorists.

Besides ongoing reporting and radio commentary, Heather will appear on Ira Glass's television version of This American Life, which is slated to premiere on Showtime this winter. Her debut novel is a choose-your-own-ending book for adults called Pretty Little Mistakes and will be published by HarperCollins in spring 2007.

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