When
we are children, we are told to be nice
and to tell the
truth, but what happens when trying to do both at the same time
is impossible?
In
the novel The Other Side of
Nice, a smart and somewhat intractable girl wants to
be nice, wants to tell the truth … but she constantly struggles
with the dilemma doing the two at once.
Through her observations, encounters and most vividly through
the character of SHE, her best friend, alter ego, and most
concerning, maybe her essential self, constantly reminds her
that there are two sides to every situation and the nice side is
often not the right side to take.
The
other side of nice explores how the seemingly simple tenets of
truth and nice can wreak so much havoc when they are at odds.
Spanning the globe, this exploration of life is a bumpy, yet
joyful ride that goes from girlhood to selfhood. She ends up
reminding each of us of our own chaos, our own choices and gives
us all a glimpse into the absurdly complicated daily effort of
simply trying to be who you really are.
“Gailanne
Grosso has given us the next important voice in literature. Ms.
Grosso writes the way we think and wish we could
write/say/behave and she does it in a style that is new and yet
thousands of years old. SHE is wise and wary. SHE is miraculous.
Read this now or you will regret not reading it forever.”
– Jamie Lee Curtis
