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Karen Connelly
Goodreads Author
Born
in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Genre
Influences
Yiorgos Seferis, Greek poet
Annie Dillard, American naturalist
the Bible ...more
Annie Dillard, American naturalist
the Bible ...more
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September 2014
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The Lizard Cage
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2005
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26 editions
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The Change Room
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2017
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4 editions
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Burmese Lessons
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2009
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8 editions
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Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal
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1992
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13 editions
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The Dream of a Thousand Lives: A Sojourn in Thailand
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1998
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3 editions
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One Room in a Castle: Letters from Spain, France & Greece
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published
1995
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5 editions
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Come Cold River
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published
2013
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2 editions
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This Brighter Prison: A Book of Journeys
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1993
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4 editions
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The Disorder of Love
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1997
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The Border Surrounds Us
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2000
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Why I Wrote The Change Room
Dear Readers,
I've been fascinated to read the reviews here, not just of The Change Room, but of all my work. Thank you. I am just coming to the Goodreads site now--I've looked in now and again, but have never thought to engage at all with readers, mostly because I am so busy. But a reader recently asked me to 'sign up' so that I would have more of a profile right on the site.
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I've been fascinated to read the reviews here, not just of The Change Room, but of all my work. Thank you. I am just coming to the Goodreads site now--I've looked in now and again, but have never thought to engage at all with readers, mostly because I am so busy. But a reader recently asked me to 'sign up' so that I would have more of a profile right on the site.
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The mystery of my early family . . . of what it's like to be a gifted child . . . of who my unknown brother is . . . Of how my sister really died. So many mysteries. I've been writing most of my life, and ALL of my adult life, and I've barely touched
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Thank you Samantha . . . I hope your book has done well. I will take a look. As you can see, I've been out of the loop on this page for a while . . . But I'm back in now and hope to reconnect with readers and writers . . .
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“He starts to whisper a prayer. "Whatever beings there are, may they be free from suffering. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from enmity. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from hurtfulness. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from ill health. Whatever beings there are, may they be able to protect their own happiness.”
― The Lizard Cage
― The Lizard Cage
“Their conversations were often charged with an excitement out of proportion to what they talked about... Their words seemed to glimmer in the air between them, dangerous metallic threads that quickly connected both of them to books and ideas, to language itself. The jailer told Teza about the daring subject matter of the famous writer Ju's recent novel, in which a passionate young man falls in love with an older woman, but the story, as he was telling it, became a metaphor for their own deepening and forbidden association....Teza refused to act like a prisoner, which freed Chit Naing from acting like a jailer.”
― The Lizard Cage
― The Lizard Cage
“Each time they meet, they have more to discuss, and so they talk, quietly revealing themselves with and without language, their eyes moving like their hands over the plates of food between them....As he walks away from these visits, his heart almost bursts from happiness and regret. He would give anything to have made different choices. He is making those choices now, but he is forty-six years old. Sometimes he is haunted by the thought that it's all come too late. Other times he thinks, No, what is happening now could never have happened before; I was too young and too fearful. The paradox fascinates him--as the old loyalties desiccate and the danger intensifies, he feels lighter and younger than he has in years.”
― The Lizard Cage
― The Lizard Cage
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