Susan Tepper's hilarious 'The Merrill Diaries' follows a quirky young woman running from a couple of doozy marriages but mainly from herself. The language is whip smart, the characters live and breathe on the page. A beautiful book. Bonnie ZoBell, author of 'The Whack-Job Girls' This novel in stories is the end of innocence and the start of "the broken tracks, the roads where the river has flooded over." A delightful, extraordinary book giving us a look at one woman's unique destiny. Gloria Mindock, editor of