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Hilary Zaid

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http://www.paperiswhite.com

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Genre

Fiction, Gay and Lesbian

Member Since

January 2018

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Hilary Zaid is the author of two novels, Paper is White (Bywater, 2018) and Forget I Told You This (Zero Street Fiction, 2023).

Hilary's short pieces have appeared in print and online venues including Mother Jones, Ecotone, Lilith Magazine, The Southwest Review, The Utne Reader, CALYX, The Santa Monica Review, and The Tahoma Literary Review.

Hilary is an alumna of the 2017 Sewanee Writers' Conference (Tennessee Williams Scholar), the Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers' Workshop. Hilary lives in the Bay Area with spouse, children and dogs. ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 329 ratings · 77 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Paper is White 4.15 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Forget I Told You This 4.01 avg rating — 84 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
	My Triple X Valentine's at the Far Point Senior Villas (A Short Story) 3.61 avg rating — 18 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
	Forget I Told You This: A Novel: Zero Street Fiction by Hilary Zaid (Goodreads Author), Meg Persichetti (Narrator) 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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“I took a deep breath. The words to a Hebrew song popped into my mind: "Kol ha'olam kulo/Gesher tsar me'od." The whole world is a very narrow bridge.... And the main thing is, not to be afraid.”
― Hilary Zaid, Paper is White

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“Our throats closed over our grief; open them, and what shrill, animal keening would have issued forth, what primitive howl of pain?”
― Hilary Zaid, Paper is White

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“I didn’t think. I knew. But this was part of being female. Feigning pale convictions.”
― Hilary Zaid, Forget I Told You This

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“Our throats closed over our grief; open them, and what shrill, animal keening would have issued forth, what primitive howl of pain?”
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