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Kristopher Jansma
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in Lincroft, New Jersey, The United States
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The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
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2013
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Why We Came to the City
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2016
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Our Narrow Hiding Places
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2024
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Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers
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Legacy: An Anthology
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Les Idéalistes
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Our Narrow Hiding Places: A Novel
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I picked up TUSOL as a really depressed 13 year old who hardly engaged in anything. The book helped me flip my life around. I read everything in the book with a figurative magnifying glass, as if I could wring out all of the information and passages I love
44% - Thank you so much for this incredibly kind note. I really appreciate what you had to say, and as someone who has struggled on and off with various levels of depression and anxiety, I am so glad to know that reading the books is helpful to others� I know writing them was very very helpful to me in dealing with my own issues. I’m hard at work now on another book that hits on some of those same
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"A beautiful, poetic tale. I can't even properly explain all the ways this story moved me so. But I'm crying as I finish this. Thank you, Kristopher Jansma, for sharing this story - and the hope of the eels - with us."
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"What a tremendous book written by Kristopher Jansma. The author writes about how the Dutch suffered at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. The focus of the book is the time called The Winter of Hunger in the Netherlands. Hitler believing the Dutch we"
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"Every time I start to think WWII has become a tired and overdone setting for historical fiction, a book like this comes along to show me how wrong I am.
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“Does it sting like this because I've been robbed or because it was never mine to steal? ... Maybe an idea, like love, cannot ever be stolen away, just as it cannot ever have belonged to me and only me.”
― The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
― The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
“She’s just this character to you. Both of us are! And we always have been. You don’t know what goes on in our heads. You don’t know where we come from or who we are . . . Can you even tell the difference anymore between what you’ve written about her and who she really, truly is?”
― The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
― The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
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Check out the new Reader's Group Guide for The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards: A Novel with an extensive Q&A with me and a list of discussion questions for your book club! BUT... spoiler alert for those who have not yet read the book - I'll repost in March!
