Atelier26 to Bring Acclaimed Harriet Scott Chessman Novel Back Into Print

December 4, 2014

Harriet Scott Chessman

Atelier26 Books is delighted to announce acquisition of Harriet Scott Chessman’s novel Someone Not Really Her Mother, for publication in spring 2015. Originally published by Dutton in 2004 following the release of Chessman’s bestselling Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, Someone Not Really Her Mother was selected for the Good Morning America Book Club and the Readers Club of America and named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle.

“Upon learning that Harriet Scott Chessman’s mesmerizing third novel was out of print,” says Atelier26 publisher M. Allen Cunningham, “it took me exactly two seconds to know that I wanted to reissue it through Atelier26. This is a masterful story of three generations of women in an American family, from World War Two through the turn of the millenium. As in all her work, Chessman handles vast subjects—in this case Alzheimer’s disease, modern parenting, elder-care, the Holocaust, transatlantic emigration, and more—with supreme elegance and powerful poetic concision. I still vividly remember, ten years later, what a revelatory, emotional experience my first reading of Someone Not Really Her Mother was. This novel needs to be in print.” 

Atelier26 published Chessman’s fourth novel, The Beauty of Ordinary Things, in autumn 2013. The Portland independent press’s reissue of Someone Not Really Her Mother will feature a newly designed cover by Atelier26 designer Nathan Shields. 

For more details about Someone Not Really Her Mother, check this site as the spring release date approaches.