Background
Ann Michele Boris Bauer Gateley (publishing under the name "Ann Bauer") was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She moved with her family to Minnetonka, Minnesota at age 10.
(Edward is nearly four years old when he begins his slow, ...)
Edward is nearly four years old when he begins his slow, painful withdrawal from the world. For those who love him -- his father, Jack; his pregnant mother, Rachel; his younger brother, Matt -- the transformation of this happy, intelligent firstborn into a sleepless, feral stranger is a devastating blow, one that will send shockwaves through every nook and cranny of family life. A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards is the story of Edward's descent into autism, and Rachel and Jack's struggle to sustain their marriage under this unanticipated strain. Threaded through the novel, too, is the tale of Rachel's late uncle Mickey, who may have suffered from a similar disorder during a time when society's notions of parenting, pediatrics, and psychology were dramatically different from today's. As Rachel delves into her own family history in search of answers, flashbacks to Mickey's life afford moving insights into both the nature of childhood trauma and the coping mechanisms that families employ. Carefully crafted and deeply entertaining, A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards reveals the author's remarkable gift for language and offers a striking exploration of domestic life that will resonate with readers everywhere.
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The remarkable novel now in paperback by the author of The Forever Marriage. Forgiveness 4 You is a startlingly contemporary novel about faith and religion in an America addicted to quick fixes and instant gratification. Gabriel McKenna is an ex-Catholic priest, and with his quiet job at a quiet bookstore, he is―slowly―rebuilding his life. But even at the bookstore, people from all walks of life find their way to him and feel compelled to share their stories and reveal to him their deepest, guiltiest secrets. One of these people is Madeline Murray, a high-powered advertising executive, who, hours after her weepy confession, has a revelation: If she felt so comforted by this stranger, perhaps there’s something remunerative to his consoling abilities. Madeline has a vision: a business that will offer a secular form of confession and forgiveness―the comforts of religion, without the religion. Without knowing exactly how it happened (and whether any of it is morally sound) Gabriel is transformed by Madeline and her colleagues into the centerpiece of the forgiveness brand. And so a therapeutic revolution unleashes itself on America―or is about to, until a terrible secret threatens to torpedo the business and the man at the middle of it. Which would all be bad enough, were it not for temptation―in the form of Madeline herself. In Forgiveness 4 You, Ann Bauer combines her gift for characterization with a broad American canvas to dazzling effect. Written with verve and confidence, Forgiveness 4 You is an unusually ambitious novel that blends cutting-edge satire with a serious mediation on faith in the twenty-first century.
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Ann Michele Boris Bauer Gateley (publishing under the name "Ann Bauer") was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She moved with her family to Minnetonka, Minnesota at age 10.
After leaving high school at age 15, she attended the University of Minnesota and studied in England, including a stint at Stratford-upon-Avon. She graduated from the University of Iowa in 1986. She returned to the University of Iowa as an Iowa Arts Fellow in 1999 and earned an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing in 2002.
Over the past decade, she has worked as a writing professor, a food critic, a novelist, a journalist and an advertising copywriter. She has taught at The University of Iowa, Brown University, Roger Williams University, Johns Hopkins University and Macalester College. She has lived in Iowa City, Iowa.
Providence, Rhode Island.
Baltimore, Doctor of Medicine. Seattle, Washington. Boston, Master of Arts. And Minneapolis, Minnesota. While in the Iowa Master of Fine Arts program, Bauer wrote most of her first novel, A Wild Ride Up The Cupboards, which came out with Scribner in 2005.
Wild Ride was named a Best Book of 2005 by the Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Providence Journal. Bauer began writing for Salon that same year, eventually becoming a regular contributor.
Damn Good Food was published by Borealis Books in 2009 and is now in its third printing.
Her second novel, The Forever Marriage, was published by The Overlook Press in June 2012. Her third novel, Forgiveness 4 You was also published by Overlook in March 2015. In 1987, Bauer married James John Bauer, with whom she had three children.
Their oldest child, Andrew, has autism and has been the subject of some of her work.
Her two adult sons live nearby. Bauer"s father was of Russian Jewish descent and Bauer"s mother was from a Catholic German family.
(Edward is nearly four years old when he begins his slow, ...)
( The remarkable novel now in paperback by the author of ...)