Gina Sorell

Fiction


Gina Sorell


"Sorell's tartly funny and infinitely wise novel looks at what it really means to come of age right along with your dreams. Let It Be Me is as wonderfully alive as it moving.”
Caroline Leavitt, People Magazine Book Critic and author of Girls in Trouble (St. Martin’s Griffin and Booksense selection) and the upcoming Breathe (Algonquin)

"A terrific novel that is as funny as it is moving. Readers will fall in love with Sarah, and root for her every step of the way.”
Gail Harvey, award-winning director of George F.Walker’s The Line

"A standing ovation for Sarah Markowitz, the sassy, spunky would-be actress who dominates Gina Sorell’s engaging debut. Sarah’s witty, self-deprecating voice will charm readers from the very first page, and they will be rooting for her right up until the novel’s delightful end." 
Yona Zeldis McDonough, author of Breaking the Bank

"Sorell is at once hugely entertaining and deeply stirring. She expertly navigates the difficult waters of writing comedy with a poignant, human edge. The book is witty, intelligent, hilarious, and just when you're not expecting it, beautifully heartbreaking.  It is a remarkable debut novel, from a writer we are sure to hear more from in the coming decades. We will be better for it."
Award winning actress, Katie Boland, Adoration, Growing Op, and Terminal City

Gina Sorell is a graduate of the UCLA Writer’s Program and has written for theater, film, radio and television.  Raised in Toronto, she honed her comedic skills writing and performing with the Second City. She is also a graduate of New York’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts and her acting credits include series regulars on I Love Mummy  (BBC), Noddy (BBC), and supporting roles on CSI Miami, The Unit, and films such as How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days. She now resides in Los Angeles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Let It Be Me

Success often calls for a redefinition of limits. Aspiring actress Sarah Markowitz left Toronto as a teenager to pursue a career in New York theatre. With her 30th birthday fast approaching, Sarah has just six months to catch a lucky break, professionally and personally. The alternative is moving back to Toronto to work in the family catering business.

Between auditions, Sarah – crowned the ‘worst waitress on the Upper East Side’ - presides over Pasta Sundays at Nicki’s. It doesn't help her career to have an agent, the self-medicating Christophe, who is preoccupied with seducing young men and gorging himself on chicken takeout.

To make matters worse, Sarah fears she’s losing her best friend and roommate Andy, a painter and charming womanizer. His partying with his glamazon girlfriend Jacinta leaves Sarah jealous and confused. She soon meets Joel, a mysterious and talented writer who is as difficult to locate as he is to resist.

Sarah’s big chance occurs when her comic self-deprecation lands her a role in Golddigger, an off-Broadway production by a talented trio called the Collective. Joel, as it happens, is the writer. Further complications ensue when soap opera ingénue Jane Smith, also cast in the play, slyly vies for Sarah’s lead role.  For the cast of Golddigger, a conflict between artistic integrity and compromise unfolds.

Set in theatrical rehearsals and art openings and local diners, Gina Sorell's dynamic debut chronicles with comic sympathy the travails of a young woman in a quarter-life crisis.  Readers will empathize with Sarah Markowitz and her friends’ misadventures in love, life, and showbiz. As everyone who has struggled to achieve worldly success knows, the dreams we pursue can only take shape when we’re able to define who we are.