Until the Real Thing Comes Along (24 page)

ELIZABETH BERG is the
New York Times
bestselling author of many novels, including
The Year of Pleasures, The
Art of Mending, Say When, True to Form, Never Change
, and
Open House
, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in 2000.
Durable Goods
and
Joy School
were selected as American Library Association Best Books of the Year, and
Talk Before Sleep
was shortlisted for the ABBY award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, Berg is also the author of a nonfiction work,
Escaping into the Open: The Art of Writing True
. She lives in Chicago.