Love in Excess National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1988) tune out and give ourselves

tune out and give ourselves permission to be still

Extraordinary Girl 10

James Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed

Words she lives by and shares with the people she loves and total strangers alike

leading with fairness and communicating principles clearly

Love in Excess National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1988) tune out and give ourselvesLove in Excess is a well crafted novel in which the claims of love and ambition are pursued through multiple storylines until the heroine engineers a melodramatic conclusion. Love in Excess and its reception provide a lively and valuable record of the challenge that female desire posed to social decorum.