liJoanna Rose is a longtime independent bookseller she founded the Powell's Books reading series and ran it for fifteen years. liiLittle Miss Strangei, her debut novel, earned critical praise and an award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. liIn today's political climate, the topic of abortion has become a lightning rod for discussion iA Small Crowd of Strangersi brings us inside how religion impacts one man's feelings on his wife's rights. liFans of the quirky women characters in Maria Semple's fiction, particularly iWhere'd You Go, Bernadettei, will enjoy hapless and heartfelt librarian Pattianne Anthony. liJoanna Rose's ability to write relationships will appeal to fans of Anne Tyler and Ann Patchett. liFamily, at its core, is who you choose as your community, according to the lessons that Pattianne Anthony learns over the course of the book her new friends on the edge of the world include a house full of adoptees, a priest in the process of losing his credentials, a