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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Born

in The United States

January 01, 1972

Website

http://www.mshempelchronicles.com

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Literature & Fiction

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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is an American writer. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter and teaches writing and literature at UC San Diego.

Bynum is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Madeleine is Sleeping was published by Harcourt in 2004 and was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her short stories, including excerpts from her new novel, have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Triquarterly, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and in Best American Short Stories. Her novel, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, was published in September 2008 and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2009.

In 2010, Bynum was named one of the New Yorker ...more

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Average rating: 3.56 · 9,723 ratings · 1,549 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer (Editor), Gregory Maguire (Foreward), Carmen Gimenez Smith (Goodreads Author) (Collaborator) 3.57 avg rating — 4,113 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Ms. Hempel Chronicles 3.38 avg rating — 1,951 ratings — published 2008 — 28 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
	Madeleine Is Sleeping 3.45 avg rating — 1,480 ratings — published 2004 — 14 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 Best American Short Stories 2009: Edited by Alice Sebold―From America's Oldest and Best-Selling Literary Series by Alice Sebold (Editor), Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Greg Hrbek (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 1,176 ratings — published 2009 — 3 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
	Likes 3.62 avg rating — 870 ratings — published 2020 — 4 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
	Tin House Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 1, Fall 2007: #33 Fantastic Women by Win McCormack (Editor), Judy Budnitz, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum 4.07 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2007	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 Burglar 3.23 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2016	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
	Many a Little Makes 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings	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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	Fiction: The Writer's Ear (2009): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Louisa Ermelino (Narrator), Laila Lalami (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“That is what is marvelous about school, she realized: when you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless. You ace a math test: you will one day work for NASA. The choir director asks you to sing a solo at the holiday concert: you are the next Mariah Carey. You score a goal, you win a poetry contest, you act in a play. And you are everything at once: actor, astronomer, gymnast, star. But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird. Cello lessons conflict with soccer practice. There aren't enough spots on the debating team. Calculus remains elusive. Until the day you realize that you cannot think of a single thing you are wonderful at.”
― Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Ms. Hempel Chronicles

tags: potential, school, talents

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“How terrible it is to recognize that one’s brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of others.”
― Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Madeleine Is Sleeping

tags: brilliance, small-mindedness

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“She hears the word bell, or orchard, or swallow, and she experiences a strange surprise, like the feel of a coin in the soil. These words make her wistful; they overwhelm her with longing. Not for her orchard, nor the bell in her church, nor the swallows that nest in the eaves of her house. For something else altogether, something she would have forgotten completely.

She wonders: Why should these words pierce me, if they are not the remains of a currency I once knew how to spend?”
― Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Madeleine Is Sleeping

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