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I am the author of Silver Girl, Pears on a Willow Tree and A Year and a Day (novels) and, most recently, Admit This to No One (short stories about official DC). My collection of linked stories about the death of my first husband, This Angel on My Chest, won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Short fiction & essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Washington Post Magazine, Salon, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Hudson Review, The Sun, Shenandoah, Arts & Letters, Washingtonian, The Collagist, and Cincinnati Review. Oh, and one of my stories was awarded a 2020 Pushcart Prize--!!! I'm a member of the core fiction faculty at the Converse low-residency MFA program.

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2024: Best Books (I Read)

Time for my annual list, along with the accompanying list of caveats: these are, simply put, the best books I read over the course of the year. I try to narrow things down to 10ish books, which is awfully hard. I definitely read (and ADORE!) books by my writer friends, but I try to keep those books off this list. It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: ALL lists are subjective. In my perso Read more of this blog post »
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Published on December 10, 2024 12:41 Tags: books, essays, fiction, poetry, short-stories, writers
Average rating: 3.79 · 1,626 ratings · 250 reviews · 18 distinct works â€� Similar authors
Pears on a Willow Tree

3.72 avg rating — 572 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions
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Silver Girl

3.68 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
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A Year and a Day

3.87 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions
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Admit This to No One: Colle...

3.73 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions
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This Angel on My Chest

4.40 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Maryland

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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008
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Till Death Do Us Part

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Peren aan een wilg

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A Year and a Day : A Novel

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“This darkness is for sleeping, for escape; it's where I go when the other places ache with light; this is where I curl up and close my eyes and darkness flows like lava, and I dissapear into what, into nothing, into pure dark, into what there is before there is anything else.”
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“No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!”
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“That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.”
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