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Corinne Demas

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Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of thirty-nine books, including six novels (Daughters, The Road Towards Home, The Writing Circle), two short story collections, a memoir (Eleven Stories High, Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948--1968), a poetry chapbook, and numerous books for children (The Littlest Matryoshka, Saying Goodbye to Lulu, The Disappearing Island, The Perfect Tree). She is a Professor Emerita of English at Mount Holyoke College and a Fiction Editor of The Massachusetts Review. Along with her family, two donkeys, and a precocious puppy, she divides her time between Western Massachusetts and Cape Cod, two settings that have inspired her books.

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	The Road Towards Home 3.95 avg rating — 9,438 ratings — 5 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
	Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway 4.01 avg rating — 726 ratings — published 2004 — 5 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 Writing Circle 3.05 avg rating — 859 ratings — published 2010 — 13 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
	Always in Trouble by Corinne Demas (Goodreads Author), Noah Z. Jones (Illustrator) 3.80 avg rating — 475 ratings — published 2009 — 5 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
	Pirates Go to School by Corinne Demas (Goodreads Author), John Manders (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 2011 — 5 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
	Saying Goodbye to Lulu by Corinne Demas (Goodreads Author), Ard Hoyt 4.35 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 2004 — 5 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
	Are Pirates Polite? by Corinne Demas (Goodreads Author), Artemis Roehrig (Goodreads Author), David Catrow (Illustrator) 3.65 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 2016 — 6 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
	Everything I Was 3.41 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 2010 — 9 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
	Daughters: A Novel 3.86 avg rating — 204 ratings — 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
	Halloween Surprise by Corinne Demas (Goodreads Author), R.W. Alley (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.64 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2011 — 9 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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Charming! This is a subtle and clever story about aging, dignity, and unexpected (and unlikely) love.
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“If you didn't want to know things, you didn't have to know them. Things didn't become facts until someone actually spoke them. Until then, you could just go on acting just the way you had been acting and even if you suspected there was something that would change everything, you didn't have to acknowledge it; you didn't have to let it in.”
― Corinne Demas, Returning to Shore

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“The cold water stung Cassandra’s toes. She thought about everything—a blur of images and sounds: leaving Clarion, driving to the Cape, Noah kissing her, unpacking the car into the cottage, the cello singing out to the sea—and then she sank into the moment and let herself think about nothing. It had been so long since she’d been able to think about nothing. Nothing at all.”
― Corinne Demas, The Road Towards Home

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“I’m always happy. But I often experience a bit of a wobble before I take off—a short period of time when all my doubts gang up against me.”
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“I’m always happy. But I often experience a bit of a wobble before I take off—a short period of time when all my doubts gang up against me.”
― Corinne Demas, The Road Towards Home

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“Even the most taciturn of men had their breaking points. As for herself, well--she would not consider her own breaking point. Mothers were not supposed to have them.”
― Corinne Demas , Daughters: A Novel

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