Randy Susan Meyers

Randy Susan Meyers

The drama of Randy Susan Meyers' internationally bestselling novels is informed by over twenty years working with criminal offenders and families impacted by emotional and physical violence. 

The Widow of Wall Street, described by PW as “An engaging and sharp reflection of the rapid changes in marital dynamics over the course of the 20th century, as well as a cautionary tale about the dangers and allure of ambition in the heyday of Wall Associated Press called the novel “compelling.” Previous novels, The Murderer’s Daughters and Accidents of Marriage were finalists for the Massachusetts Book Awards, who wrote the Massachusetts Council of the Book, who wrote, “The clear and distinctive voice of Randy Susan Meyers will have you enraptured and wanting more.” The Boston Globe called Meyers’ second novel, The Comfort of Lies “Sharp and biting, and sometimes wickedly funny when the author skewers Boston’s class and neighborhood dividing lines, but it has a lot of heart, too.” Choosing Accidents of Marriage as a People “Pick of The Week,” the magazine wrote, “This novel’s unsparing look at emotional abuse and its devastating consequences gives it gravity and bite, while a glimpse into a physically damaged mind both surprises and fascinates.”
 The Murderer’s Daughters, deemed a “Knock-out Debut” by the LA Times was a nationwide Target Book Club pick. Meyers lives in Boston and teaches at Boston’s Grub Street Writers’ Center and at Writer in Progress in Northampton, MA.

DIAMOND RUBY (I already want to re-read it)

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diamond rubyThe only thing I didn’t love about Diamond Ruby by Joseph Wallace was finishing it, because then it was over and I had to leave her world. Lucky you, you can still look forward to it.

If you want the perfect book to give to a young, old, or in-between female this holiday, get Diamond Ruby. (And then you’re going to want to pass it on, so you may want to buy an extra. I’ve already gone through a few.)

I don’t want to give much away, but I’ll say this: Joseph Wallace’s inspiration for his book was Jackie Mitchell, who was signed (in 1931) to an all male-team in an all male baseball league in Tennessee. She struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. A few days later, the baseball commissioner banned her (and all women) from the league on the grounds that the sport was “too strenuous” for women.

Diamond Ruby begins in 1913 Brooklyn, when Ruby Thomas is seven, and then shoots us into 1920’s New York in a manner which, for me, captured the danger and wildness of that era in a way I’ve never experienced. Ruby’s story is half fairy-tale, and half knuckle-biting suspense (there were times towards

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Books That Haunt

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Halloween is all about haunting. The unrelenting hold of ghosts. The unbearable-to-resist sweetness of candy. Ghosts that haunt are products of the living: relatives dead and alive, past loves, remembered slights, pinnacles of success, things we wish we’d never done, things we wish we had done. Jobs we wisely quit. Careers we never pursued. Decisions … Read more

Fasting Against the Violence at Home

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  I’ve worked with men who battered their wives, their girlfriends, their sisters, and sometimes their mothers. For almost ten years, I listened to their stories as they admitted bullying, hitting, smacking, punching, and breaking bones. Some had murdered. When asked where their children were during these incidents, almost all answered the same way: they … Read more

Nobody Kills For Love

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Every now and then an article leaps out of the paper and punches me in the chest. (Actually, this should probably happen with 90% of the articles printed. Sometimes I don’t know why all of us morning-paper-readers don’t end up weeping, railing or marching after closing the last page.) This morning’s Boston Globe headlined an … Read more