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What's Never Said Paperback – 3 August 2015

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It's dangerous to search for an old flame you never got over. What if you find him-and he doesn't remember you? In her captivating new novel, Susan Shapiro explores the perils of revisiting past passion. Lila Penn leaves Wisconsin for graduate school in the big city, where she falls for her professor Daniel Wildman. Decades after their tangled link, she arranges a tête-à-tête in downtown Manhattan. But the shocking encounter blindsides Lila, causing her to question her memory-and sanity. Switching between Greenwich Village and Tel Aviv, the saga unravels the sexual secret that's haunted Daniel and Lila for thirty years. PRAISE FOR SUSAN SHAPIRO: "Frank, darkly funny, entertaining..." -New York Times Book Review "A promiscuously readable guilty pleasure..." -Elle Magazine "Sly, candid, disarming..." -Pam Houston "Shapiro's voice is so passionate and honest, it's bewitching." -Erica Jong "Irresistible energy, winning humor... breathtakingly frank honesty." -Philip Lopate "Unputdownable." -Gael Greenereal

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Publisher : Heliotrope Books LLC (3 August 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 284 pages
ISBN-10 : 1942762178
ISBN-13 : 978-1942762171
Dimensions : 14 x 1.51 x 21.6 cm

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Sara Goff

You'll Find Both Comfort and the Truth in What's Never Said

Reviewed in the United States on 22 May 2016

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At a reading in Manhattan, I once heard author Susan Shapiro say that it's easier for her to write memoirs ("Five Men Who Broke My Heart" and "Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Having Sex") than it is writing fiction. I believe she put it, "Fiction kills me." After reading "What's Never Said," I understood. Shapiro, in creating her characters Lila and Daniel, the naive MFA student and the suffering older professor, gave them such intense needs, so much desire, greed and love, indeed, and so much soul, she had to have experienced something like a death either in bringing them to life or in letting them go at the end of the book.

A love story spanning decades, not only between Lila, the innocent Midwestern protégé and Daniel, her poetry professor, but between Lila and New York City, where she runs to escape her family and high school sweetheart, and where she runs to find the father she lost at a young age. Psychology plays its own role throughout "What's Never Said," but the story never slows. Shapiro stays true to her fast-paced dialogue, and the humor, sarcasm and wit she's known for in her writing. It comes out in Lila and Daniel's relationship, in their best friends, their rivals, and in their parents, both living and dead.

I recommend "What's Never Said" for its look into the poetry/MFA/literary journal world in NYC in the 1980's. I recommend it for the tender, if not beautiful, way it shows life after losing a parent, and I recommend it to anyone who's in love, has ever been in love, or who longs for love. You will find both comfort and the truth in this book.

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Emma Goldman

Love, Loss and Memory Beautifully Explored

Reviewed in the United States on 6 March 2017

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Susan's impressive command over this narrative and her access to the hearts of her characters is revealed in sentences like these and countless others: "Lila had read all about legendary New York book parties--where drunk writers were discovered or fell in love or got stabbed"..."Zallman had been railing agains their romance repeatedly, insisting she was too young, unformed, iill-equipped for intimacy"..."His throat throbbed, his blood tangling up in his veins as he reread 'you composed me.'"

For any writer, especially young, hopeful, perhaps naive, ambitious, terrified writers, navigating MFA programs is at best fraught. Young writers want to be visible to mentors and mentors are often missing that critical "honor" gene. I loved the back and forth of perspective between Lila and David, and the story's structure, which gives us a great depth of insight about what two guides are feeling and how they rationalize their own lives. Best of all, we get to make up our mind in some sense. Susan is not "leading the witness." The tenderness and care with which she wades into a territory of power struggle and creative need is at times painful to read for those of us who went through it. How the heart holds desire, and how the mind plays with that yearning over time, is what gives this book its tremendous drive.

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Andy

Very good book!

Reviewed in the United States on 5 February 2016

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It's not that the book isn't good or deserves more stars, I spoiled it for myself before hand. Yahoo news had a story of Susan Shapiros, well this one, only not as long for obvious reasons. When I was reading the story I was just blown away with her style of writing! I struggle with books and retaining information from them so this was a very awesome thing that was happening haha At the end it had a link to her book, so I went and bought it that day. It was just hard reading the actual book since I already knew the story and what actually happened. In the book the names and places are different from the Yahoo story. There were just too many things in my head for me to fully enjoy the book.

I would definitely recommend this book to my friends and other readers!

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Jocelyn Jeffery

A Simultaneously Cynical and Refreshing Read About Love

Reviewed in the United States on 15 January 2016

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The New York Times bestselling author, Susan Shapiro’s twelfth book, What’s Never Said, tackles the interminable question of romance gone awry. The plot line is familiar — Lila, a young literature student in downtown Manhattan falls for her older professor, which leads to an unfurling of misunderstandings that culminate in the abrupt ending of their relationship without it ever having actually begun. The author’s voice comes out in the form of her Sylvia Plath obsessed main character as she tries to piece together where she went wrong, an anxiety that resonates with anyone who has ever brushed up against love and lost it before it was theirs.

Shapiro does a flawless job at moving between the 1980’s and the present day to demonstrate the stark contrast between our evolving physical bodies and external circumstances versus our stubborn eccentricities and insecurities. The ardor, frankness and honesty that emanates throughout Shapiro’s writing makes you want to pick up a pen and pour out your past love transgressions over a glass of Lila’s go to cocktail of rum and TaB. What’s Never Said is a shrewd, convivial and percipient read that will make you shirk, smile and laugh out loud.

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Beverly A. Willett

There’s something to recommend each one of Susan Shapiro’s books

Reviewed in the United States on 4 January 2016

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There’s something to recommend each one of Susan Shapiro’s books, but “What’s Never Said” is one of my top two favorites. Maybe I’m a sucker for relationship stories, but this book is more than that. People are complicated and so are relationships. Is everything ever truly completely known or knowable? Probably not and this book not only keeps you guessing, but also thinking and exploring not only the characters on the page, but your own life. The characters aren’t always stand-up, but they are real, and I cared about them. Finely tuned and crafted, of all Shapiro’s books, I found this one the hardest to put down.

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