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Kate Christensen

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KATE CHRISTENSEN is the author of eight novels and two food-centric memoirs. Her most recent novel is Welcome Home, Stranger (December 2023). Her fourth novel, The Great Man, won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award. Her stories, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. She currently writes a regular monthly column for Frenchly.us called Bouffe. She lives in Taos, New Mexico with her husband and their two dogs.

I love you most of all, my favorite vegetable

A few years ago, I gave a one-day memoir workshop whose focus was food writing. One of the students, Elizabeth, wrote an essay about the meals she cooked and ate in Tibet, where she lived in a house with several revolutionaries during the 2008 uprising against China. Her piece answered the question, “What do you eat at the revolution?� What they ate—simple communal meals with occasional flashes of

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Welcome Home, Stranger

3.43 avg rating — 4,353 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions
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The Great Man

3.53 avg rating — 2,657 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions
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Blue Plate Special: An Auto...

3.37 avg rating — 2,570 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions
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The Last Cruise

3.27 avg rating — 2,628 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions
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The Epicure's Lament

3.74 avg rating — 1,510 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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The Astral

3.28 avg rating — 1,365 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions
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Trouble

3.03 avg rating — 998 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions
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In the Drink

3.23 avg rating — 894 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions
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Jeremy Thrane

3.59 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions
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How to Cook a Moose

3.60 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions
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“Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.”
Kate Christensen, The Astral

“My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.”
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“It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.”
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When it comes to food and spending a pleasant evening at home, you:

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Cozy up with a book & comfort food. Pancakes for dinner, anyone?
 
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Try a delicious new recipe—cooking is the best relaxant.
 
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