Review:
"Best to Laugh is cheerfully outlandish, filled with ambition, love, adventure, kindness, swimming pools, nightclubs, and baked goods. Best of all, it's laugh-out-loud hilarious." --Julie Schumacher, author of The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls
"Best to Laugh had me laughing out loud. It's both funny and tender, and filled with memorable characters. You can't help but love Candy Pekkala and her quirky, mixologist grandmother. Lorna Landvik has written a charming novel with real heart." --Shannon Olson, author of Welcome to My Planet
"One of the things that accounts for Lorna Landvik's immense popularity is the essential good-heartedness she brings to her work. But as much as this is a celebration of a very special time and place, it is even more a celebration of character, desire, friendship, perseverance, and love--oh, and hamburger hot dish." --Elizabeth Berg, author of Tapestry of Fortunes and The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted
"GREAT NOVEL!!! It reads like an autobiography! Best to Laugh, although fiction, is one of the truest accounts of a Hollywood life one can read. It takes a master of comedy to be able to write about the business of laughter. To interpret its roots and inner working. Lorna Lanvik is precisely that. I, for one of many, can attribute countless gut busting laughs to the genius of Lorna. A great nostalgic tale." --Mo Collins, actress/comedian
"Landvik's novel is happily filled with a double dose of nostalgia--the protagonist's for the golden age of Hollywood and the author's for a lovably gritty 1970s Los Angeles." --Kirkus Reviews
"Filled with historical lore about Hollywood's glory days, inside observations about the chauvinism that pervades the comedy boys' club, and a bevy of secondary characters straight out of central casting, Landvik's homage to funny ladies everywhere is a joyful, breezy trip down memory lane." --Booklist
"Best to Laugh recounts real--poignant and laugh-out-loud funny--experience." --Star Tribune
"Best to Laugh has Landvik's signature humor--a little corny, a lot sweet--and the sort of friends-become-family characters that defined her best-selling debut Patty Jane's House of Curl. There is a Steel Magnolias-style of laugh-aw-cry-laugh likability to the tale and the 1970s-ness is so palpable, you can practically hear the whisper-walk of a woman's silk pantsuit." --Duluth News-Tribune
About the Author:
Lorna Landvik is the best-selling author of many novels including Patty Jane's House of Curl, Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons, Oh My Stars, and most recently, Mayor of the Universe (Minnesota, 2014). She has performed stand-up and improvisational comedy around the country and is also a public speaker, playwright, and actor, most recently seen in an all-improvised, one-woman show Party in the Rec Room.
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