In “East Side/West Side,” a story about choosing sides, two eleven year olds try to “dance their way out of the ghetto.”
Nora Pierce’s first novel, The Insufficiency of Maps, was published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in 2007. A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, the novel, according to Janet Fitch, “explores the textures and mysteries of the fundamental human experience -— love, dependence, marginality, madness -— in a poetic style, which does not seek to simply explicate those textures and mysteries, but embodies them.”
