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EJ Levy’s debut novel, THE CAPE DOCTOR (Little Brown), was named a NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice book, one of Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of Summer, and won a 2022 Colorado Book Award. A French edition was published by L'Olivier in 2023 and won the 2024 Prix Libr'a Nous for Foreign Fiction. Her story collection, LOVE, IN THEORY, won a Flannery O’Connor Award and GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction; KIRKUS named it a Best Indie Book of the Year. Levy’s anthology, TASTING LIFE TWICE: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers, won a Lambda Literary Award. Her work has appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE PARIS REVIEW, KENYON REVIEW, THE WASHINGTON POST, BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, ORION, and THE NATION, and has been twice named among Distingui ...more

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	The Cape Doctor 3.95 avg rating — 3,011 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford (Editor), Michael Martone (Editor), Bernard Cooper 4.15 avg rating — 717 ratings — published 2007 — 7 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
	Love, in Theory: Ten Stories (The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) 3.91 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Le Médecin de Cape Town 3.92 avg rating — 180 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
	Tasting Life Twice by E.J. Levy (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mary Gaitskill, Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1995 — 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
	Amazons 4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope by Luke Reynolds (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jennifer Reynolds (Editor), George Saunders (Foreword) 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	Forty Years of Diversity: Essays on Colonial Georgia (PUBLICATIONS by Harvey H. Jackson, Lee Caldwell (Contributor), Edward J. Cashin (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1984 — 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
	A Perfect Souvenir: Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction by Ethan Laughman (Editor), Gail Galloway Adams (Contributor), Geoffrey Becker (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 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

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“As a scholar, it was her job to see things in relationship to other things; the only thing she couldn't see in a relationship was herself.”
― E.J. Levy, Love, in Theory: Ten Stories

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“I could not help but wonder, then as now, When we look at a man or a woman, what is it that we see? We make too much of the difference: having been both, I can say the distinctions are both greater and less than they appear. As a surgeon, I can attest that once the skin is peeled back, the distinctions are few; save for the reproductive organs, one cannot tell man from woman—one cannot say, This is a woman’s brain or lungs, a man’s heart. They think and beat just the same.”
― E.J. Levy, The Cape Doctor

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“They did not take kindly to regulation, that enemy of self-serving charlatans everywhere.”
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