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Cheryl Klein

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Cheryl E. Klein is the author of CRYBABY, a memoir about desperately wanting a baby and getting cancer instead (forthcoming from Brown Paper Press in 2022). She is also the author of two works of fiction: THE COMMUTERS (City Works Press) and LILAC MINES (Manic D Press). She writes and edits for MUTHA Magazine (muthamagazine.com) and blogs about the intersection of life, art, and carbohydrates at breadandbread.blogspot.com.

Average rating: 4.14 · 922 ratings · 184 reviews · 6 distinct worksSimilar authors
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Lilac Mines

4.12 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions
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Crybaby: Infertility, Illne...

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Graceful, subtle, and well crafted. As lifelong stepsisters whose parents may be getting a divorce, Kenzie and Quinn make the transition from not-chosen family to not-chosen not-family to chosen family in a story that is quietly moving and full of be ...more
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I'm fascinated by intergenerational trauma narratives, and this is a good and timely addition to the genre. Nimura intersperses her father's unpublished memoir (written in the late 1960s) of growing up in the Tule Lake concentration camp during WWII ...more
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Life in Progress by Hans Ulrich Obrist
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Obrist's passion for art as a lens through which to view the world is contagious. This book made me want to see things and make things. At the same time, I found it a little opaque; Obrist's prose is plainspoken, but he doesn't share a lot about his ...more
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Orlando by Susanne Kuhlendahl
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I never read the original, but I've heard it's a little dense. Kuhlendahl's light-handed water color and pencil illustrations add movement, context, wit, and bodies. When Orlando—an Elizabethan nobleman and frustrated writer—awakens one day as a woma ...more
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L.M. Montgomery
“I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and you!”
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
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25x33 Q&A with novelist Cheryl Klein — 15 members — last activity Feb 02, 2010 04:23PM
Cheryl Klein will answer questions about her new novel, Lilac Mines, and her story collection, The Commuters, from July 8 to December 9, 2009.
17262 The New Short Fiction Series — 31 members — last activity Aug 29, 2014 11:42AM
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City Lights Books is a landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
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Punk Hostage Press is a not-for-profit book publishing imprint that also acts as a an outreach program to connect writers and contemporary literature ...more
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