Overexposed - Figtree Books

“In her memoirs – ‘Five Men Who Broke My Heart’ and ‘Lighting Up,’ both published in 2004 – Shapiro herself plays the irritant who, by story’s end, smoothes herself into a pearl, however flawed. In her hilarious 2009 debut novel, ‘Speed Shrinking,’ Shapiro’s thinly veiled autobiographical protagonist, Julia Goodman, is such a wreck that even eight therapy visits in as many days can’t keep the Twinkies out of her mouth. Now, in ‘Overexposed,’ Shapiro brings us twentysomething New York photographer Rachel Solomon, yet another riotously narcissistic doppelganger. On page 210, the allegedly adult Rachel is still arguing with her long-suffering, doting mother about the favoritism her mother allegedly bestowed upon Rachel’s brothers.”

Read the full text of Meredith Maran’s 2010 review in The San Francisco Chronicle.

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Susan Shapiro

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Susan Shapiro, an award-winning journalism professor, has written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, The Nation, Salon and Psychology Today. She’s author of 8 books including Unhooked, Speed Shrinking, Overexposed, and the acclaimed memoirs Lighting Up, Only as Good as Your Word and Five Men Who Broke My Heart, currently optioned for a movie. The Bosnia List, her coauthored memoir, was published by Viking/Penguin in March 2014. She and her husband, a TV/film writer, live in Greenwich Village, where she teaches her popular “instant gratification takes too long” classes at the New School, NYU, and in private workshops and seminars. You can follow her on Twitter at @susanshapironet.