Author: Betsy Lerner New York: Grove Press. Copyright 2024. Pages: 272 Price: $ 28.00 (Hardcover) As an author, Betsy Lerner first burst onto the scene in 2000 with the nonfiction The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers which sent seismic shock waves of brutal honesty and savage humor emanating across the publishing world. At the end of my first decade as a struggling author, she shed light on why I was so bad; it was life-changing for me. She had been an editor at Simon & Schuster for 15 years before becoming a literary agent by joining Dunow, Carlson, and Lerner Literary Agency in 2005. As such, she intimately knows all ends of the publishing industry: author/agent/editor. At age 67, Shred Sisters is her first foray into fiction. Lerner openly states that this book is deeply personal, and it certainly reads as a confessional narrative. When mental illness afflicts one…
