Perhaps it was a sign when, at the age of nine, she dressed as a bookworm(tights, antennae and an enormous painted cardboard "book") for animprovised American-style Halloween in Sao Paolo, Brazil that DanielleGanek would one day become a writer. Her first novel LUlU MEETS GOD AND DOUBTS HIM was described in a New York Times daily review as funny, sharp-clawed, and a "glossy, amusing story that still finds time to wonder...how, why and whether the art world differentiates between trash and treasure. Vanity Fair said "she captures the absurdity of the New York art world with wide and witty brushstrokes." Her second novel THE SUMMER WE READ GATSBY will be published by Viking in 2010.