2016 Beach Book Festival Winner (Wildcard category) - THE LOBBY

SAN FRANCISCO - May 17, 2016 - PRLog -- Reminiscent of Grand Hotel and Neil Simon's California Suite, THE LOBBY (Freisen Press; March 2016) by Randi Sherman, sheds a hilarious spotlight on the comings and goings of anonymous people who come to life in the lobby of the grand Shipley Hotel. Practically engineered for eavesdropping, San Francisco's juiciest hotel lobby offers the perfect place to witness the lives-and the most comedic intersections off staff, long-term residents, and eclectic guests.

WINNER! 2016 Beach Book Festival WIldcard Category

2016 Paris Book Festival & 2016 Los Angeles Book Festival RUNNER-UP

2016 San Francico Book Festival HONORABLE MENTION

Evocative of Upstairs Downstairs, the reader gets a delicious insider's look at both the guests and staff at The Shipley Hotel whose lives briefly intersect over the course of a 24-hour period. Each consecutive chapter title is a time of day, beginning at 4:00 AM, when the hotel lobby comes to life as those working behind the scenes downstairs spruce up the lobby with fresh flower centerpieces, and front-desk staff are busy preparing for the hectic day ahead as their guests upstairs are sleeping, oblivious to the busy preparations taking place downstairs.

Randi Sherman's spot-on character descriptions capture humanity in all its vain, self-absorbed, often romantic and sometimes loving preoccupations in 50 interlocking short stories as the narrator snoops into the lives of hotel workers and guests as they crisscross in the Shipley's elegant lobby.

"Smart, witty and fearless in its pursuit of levity, The Lobby is the latest release from Randi M. Sherman and it's one you have to read! An author who excels in credible characterization, this time she places her characters into illuminating parodies of her setting, consistently devising turns of plot that are inventive and yet, in the best way, seemingly inevitable. Matched only by her witty ear for dialogue it is without doubt a masterful narrative that's infused with passion and benefits from flawless delivery. With so many story threads, it's not an easy task and whilst the denouement isn't arrived at easily or predictably, it is most importantly a lot of fun to get there. It seems that Sherman's goal is the liberation of tedium from the chains of timidity, banality and our daily identity and on this level there's a certain cathartic pleasure to be found in the events that touch her characters,. Page by page her prose take control and by turn compel us to reflect, or laugh out loud, as we find ourselves mingling with the guests and daily visitors to the Shipley Hotel." - BookViral Review

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