http://www.pamelaholm.com/press Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:19:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Night Garden Realizing that her relationship has run its course, Dawn leaves her boyfriend of five years, setting up house in a new place with daughter, Jewel, a two-story with a room to let downstairs. An exterminator-cum-artist by trade, Dawn must tame the weedy jungle that fills the backyard ... http://www.pamelaholm.com/press/?p=16 The Night Garden By Pamela Holm At the opening of Pamela Holm’s new novel, "The Night Garden," Dawn, a 33- year-old exterminator, and her daughter, Jewel, have moved into a house overlooking the San Francisco Bay. It has a small apartment downstairs that the single mom plans to rent out ... http://www.pamelaholm.com/press/?p=15 Article published Jul 1, 2005 BOOKMARK Don’t look to ‘Night Garden’ for fairy-tale ending By Michelle Rupe Eubanks Staff Writer Pamela Holm is relatively new to the fiction genre. As the author of "The Toaster Broke, So We’re Getting Married: A Memoir," she knows, of course, how to tell ... http://www.pamelaholm.com/press/?p=14 “[A] fresh first novel…With a quirky protagonist who likes bugs and her spunky daughter who keeps a rat, Holm has fashioned a charming urban tale of heartbreak and survival.” – Publishers Weekly “…distinguished by delicious, sharply observed scenes of San Francisco’s various neighborhoods and inimitable seasons.” – Kirkus "More than ... http://www.pamelaholm.com/press/?p=12 The Night Garden Toughing it out in  San Francisco, single mother Dawn and her nine-year-old daughter, Jewel, prove a sympathetic pair in Holm’s fresh first novel (after her memoir The Toaster Broke, So We’re Getting Married). After years of ambivalence about her relationship with David, an overbearing artist, Dawn (an exterminator ... http://www.pamelaholm.com/press/?p=11 The Night Garden Debut fiction from memoirist Holm (the Toaster Broke So We’re Getting Married, 2002) charts a year in the lives of a group of San Franciscans struggling to find love, maintain love, get over lost love.   After two miscarriages, Macie and her husband, Harlan, no ... http://www.pamelaholm.com/press/?p=10 The Night Garden  Pamela Holm loves San Francisco, and she knows the city. More than anything else, one leaves her first novel, The Night Garden, with the clear sense of her knowledge of and affection for the city she and her characters call home. The novel deals with lust and its ... http://www.pamelaholm.com/press/?p=9 The Toaster Broke, So We’re Getting Married March 2, 2003, Sunday NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS BOOKS IN BRIEF: NONFICTION The smell of burning toast inspired Pamela Holm’s boyfriend to suggest marriage; surely they could count on a new toaster as a wedding present. In her loosely written ... http://www.pamelaholm.com/press/?p=6 The Toaster Broke, So We’re Getting Married This addition to the crowded memoir shelves offers an entertaining look behind the scenes as Holm plans her San Francisco wedding. Her second trip to the altar 16 years after her first "short, sweet blur" of a wedding is complicated by the presence ... http://www.pamelaholm.com/press/?p=5 The Toaster Broke, So We’re Getting Married A Memoir By Pamela Holm In this insightful memoir, Holm writes candidly about her fears as she prepares to walk down the aisle for the second time. As a jaded 38-year old artist with a teenage daughter, she is surprised to find herself ... http://www.pamelaholm.com/press/?p=4