Cures for Heartbreak - Softcover

" Cures for Heartbreak is a sad, funny, smart, endlessly poignant novel. . . . It made me feel grateful for my life, for my family, and above all for the world that brings us gifts like the gift of Margo Rabb." - Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
" Cures for Heartbreak is full of sadness, humor, and quirky details that ring completely true. I thoroughly enjoyed it." - Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep
" Margo Rabb's ' World History' [a chapter in Cures for Heartbreak] is unusual in its depiction of familial tragedy in the context of large-scale horror. . . . [It] beautifully brings together the intensely personal and the historical, and rings with the authenticity of a bitter, yet illuminating truth." - Joyce Carol Oates

"Cures for Heartbreak is a sad, funny, smart, endlessly poignant novel. . . . It made me feel grateful for my life, for my family, and above all for the world that brings us gifts like the gift of Margo Rabb."-Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

"Cures for Heartbreak is full of sadness, humor, and quirky details that ring completely true. I thoroughly enjoyed it."-Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep

"Margo Rabb's 'World History' [a chapter in Cures for Heartbreak] is unusual in its depiction of familial tragedy in the context of large-scale horror. . . . [It] beautifully brings together the intensely personal and the historical, and rings with the authenticity of a bitter, yet illuminating truth."-Joyce Carol Oates

Starred review, School Library Journal, January 1, 2007:
"Black humor, pitch-perfect detail, and compelling characters make this a terrific read, despite the pain that permeates every superbly written page."

Starred review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, April 2007:
"This is undeniably a book of anguish, it's also one of raw strength and casual, clever humor in random and surprising places, making it a compelling as well as tearful read."
"From the Hardcover edition."

Black humor, pitch-perfect detail, and compelling characters make this a terrific read. --School Library Journal (starred review)"

Rabb leavens impossible heartbreak with surprising humor, delivered with a comedian s timing and dark absurdity. Readers will cherish this powerful debut. --ALA Booklist (starred review)"

A compelling as well as tearful read. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)"

Everybody, regardless of age, should read this novel witty, warm, and gorgeous in its fearlesesness. --Philadelphia Inquirer"

A witty, matter-of-fact, and heartfelt look at what grief means to one teenager. The light, everyday comedy born of a series of disasters prevents the book from becoming maudlin. Peripheral characters are delightfully, even frighteningly, real in their details. --Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)"

This novel gets at the blinding ache of grief, while also managing to be very funny, very smart, and addictively readable. This is truly a gorgeous and important book, one I ve been pressing onto friends and their teenaged kids. --Cookie Magazine"

Rabb concentrates not on the brooding and self-pity that can often permeate this type of novel but on an examination of death s antithesis love. Each chapter collides and colludes to offer both the familiar and the uncharted with humorous and touching detail, breaking and mending the reader s heart in turns. --Teenreads.com"

Intense, poignant but also very funny, Mia s story of the year following her mother s death explores the nature of grief as it is experienced by a Jewish teenager. There is much pain in the story but also much wisdom, not to mention a smart look at school, friendship, and romance. --Association of Jewish Libraries"