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Rosina Lippi was born and raised in Chicago, but she has lived for longer periods in the Austrian alps, on the East coast (where she earned a PhD in linguistics from Princeton) and in Michigan, where she was a professor at UM/Ann Arbor for ten years.

Sara Donati is Rosina's alterego. Sara lives only to write the Wilderness series (all published by Bantam in hard and soft cover). As the last book in the series was published in January 2010, Sara is now on sabbatical.

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[with Tied to the Tracks] Lippi turns her buoyant creative talents to the romantic comedy genre with an effervescent tale of a trio of offbeat Yankee filmmakers plunked down deep in the heart of Dixie. --Booklist
An intelligent romp. --Kirkus
[This] is a hilarious, smart, sexy novel with a heart of gold.-- Susan Wiggs
Sharp, quirky, and deeply tender, you'll laugh out loud at The Pajama Girls [of Lambert Square] -- Jacqueline Mitchard
Full of Lippi's trademark dry wit, tempered by deep empathy, Pajama Girls is a charmer, a rich pleasure of a book from start to finish -- Joshilyn Jackson
reviewed by Dylan Evans for The Orange Prize (Britain) 2001 shortlist:
One is reminded of Garcia-Marquez's Hundred Years of Solitude, where the names also recur from one generation to the next, and whose style is similarly simple yet profound, honest and yet soothing.
An intricately braided narrative about a place that will be, for most readers, at first foreign and then familiar. These stories about love and community are exceptionally vivid, even when they contain ghosts and traces of memory. Homestead is a book of marvels.--Charles Baxter
The fascinating stories in Rosina Lippi's novel create a village across time and change by introducing a whole population of souls we would never otherwise meet--their losses and desires, their thwarted curiosity about the wider world. The women in this haunting book are deeply and uniquely of their place, which is rendered with care and precision, yet they speak (often wordlessly) of women's longings and satisfactions everywhere.-- Rosellen Brown
In Rosenau, a small, fully imagined world in the heart of the Bregenz Forest, Rosina Lippi gives us not only a village and its life, whole, complex, and alive--she gives us our friends and neighbors and secrets. Her clear prose has the weight and tender history of old silver and the tang of stainless steel. There are a hundred truths in these twelve stories."--Amy Bloom
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