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Praise for Book Doctor

“An optimistic novel … this one transcends categories—or, in the course of proposing multiple books, falls into all of them—as we follow Arlette’s professional and personal life to a perfect conclusion.”

—The Washington Post

“She’s just the prescription for writers’ woes … a novel that remains light and comic throughout even as it becomes a meditation on the sometimes boring nature of love and a statement on the importance of creativity in a life … This is a narrative to remind us of the grace to be found in storytelling and a call to open ourselves up to the tale at hand.”

—Los Angeles Times

“A dryly humorous and tenderly observed tale, rich with insight into writer’s block and its related maladies, love and life block.”

—Hudson Valley Magazine

“The sudden urge to write a book often has a startling effect on the book-smitten, as it does throughout Esther Cohen’s novel, Book Doctor, set as it is at a switchboard of literary ambitions, in a marketplace for would-be books. Cohen’s characters are as deliciously varied—sharp, tender, hilarious—as they let loose their stories in that carnival of possibilities, the book spoken, but not yet written.”

—Alistair Reid, author of Oases: Prose and Poetry

“Cohen has assembled a collection of lovely moments and pithy observations.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Will delight all book lovers and fans of screwball comedies.”

—Booklist

“Cohen’s novel is a gentle treatment of fragile relationships, humorously punctuated by the weird queries Arlette receives from struggling writers. Fluent, funny and true, it will particularly appeal to writers and those who must suffer them.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Esther Cohen has managed to write a novel that is both sardonic and affectionate, a combination that has virtually ceased to exist. Even when her characters behave foolishly, she does not treat them like fools. Book Doctor is an affectionate paean to the creative drive that burns in even the least creative people. Thoroughly charming.”

—Joe Queenan, author of Balsamic Dreams and Queenan Country

“Witty and urbane … the book resembles a pleasant Woody Allen movie, with its New York backdrop and amusing dialogue.”

—Library Journal

“It’s a book that provokes questions about our own lives, our dreams, our relationships, the question of why we do the things we do.”

—Na’Amat Woman

“This one transcends categories … delightful.”

—Miami Herald

“Cohen evokes scenes from the modern life of waxing and waning relationships with understated humor.”

—The Indian Express

“This is a wonderfully offbeat novel … It is funny and sad and encouraging, and a terrific contemplation of the process of writing.”

—The Kingston Observer

“The book is satire, but never vicious. It’s actually warm and charming. A lesser author would have been unable to walk this tightrope. Cohen does it beautifully.”

—Lev Raphael, Michigan Public Radio