This year, Sylvia is completing work on a new novel for middle grade readers (ages 9-12) called Kepler's Dream, to be published by Penguin Press in the spring of 2012.

The Delivery Room is winner of the 2009 Northern California Book Award in fiction!

Praise for The Delivery Room:

"A beautiful novel, rich and dense and satisfying"
— Michael Chabon

"Immensely readable… for once, the word ‘unforgettable’ is justified"
— The Observer (London)