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Cheryl Klein

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in Manhattan Beach, California, The United States

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http://breadandbread.blogspot.com

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Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Memoir

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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.

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Average rating: 4.14 · 910 ratings · 182 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hamsters Make Terrible Roommates by Cheryl Klein (Goodreads Author), Abhi Alwar (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 756 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lilac Mines 4.12 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crybaby: Infertility, Illness, and Other Things That Were Not the End of the World 4.13 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Commuters: A Novel of Intersections 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infertilities, a Curation by Elizabeth Horn (Editor), Maria Novotný (Editor), Robin Silbergleid (Editor) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Cheryl Klein has read The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book was shaped like a good literary novel, but it never quite felt like one. When I first started reading, I told spouse that it was like a literary Flowers in the Attic (if you didn't grow up in the '80s, VC Andrews wrote a series about sexy i ...more
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Cheryl Klein rated a book it was amazing Strange Folk by Alli Dyer (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A page-turning novel about intergenerational trauma (my jam!) through the lens of modern witchcraft. I'm not a fan of hipster witchery that seems like an Instagram affectation. But multiple generations of feuding ladies in a small town, who present e ...more
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I was a young adult when my own mom died of cancer, so maybe that's why I was spared the failing-grades part of Jesse's narrative, but damn, I related to every other bit of this graphic memoir. Grief as OCD and intrusive thoughts that function as a r ...more
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Cheryl Klein rated a book it was amazing Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age by Amanda Hess	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It's like Amanda Hess climbed inside my head (or my algorithm?), saw exactly how I felt about the Owlet baby monitor, and wrote it all down. This book resonates for many reasons, including how feels to become and be a parent when the internet and t ...more
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Cheryl’s Quotes

“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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