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J. Jill Robinson

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in Langley, B.C., Canada

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Jill was born and raised on the west coast of Canada just outside Vancouver, and now lives on Galiano Island. After a few years of wide but informal empirical learning starting with dropping out of high school and followed by all manner of things both bad and good in the "school of life," she was more formally educated at the University of Calgary (B.A., M.A.) and the University of Alaska in Fairbanks (M.F.A.). Her short stories have appeared in many literary journals, and published in four collections of stories: Saltwater Trees (1991), Lovely In Her Bones (1993), Eggplant Wife (1995), and Residual Desire (2003), and the novel More In Anger (2012 Thomas Allen)..

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Just starting Alix Ohlin's book Inside--must admit I'd never heard of her before, but am glad to have now. One of the good things about the shortlists for the big prizes...for both those writers, and for readers. I like how graciously Ohlin sweeps the reader up and into the novel. On page 15 now.

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	More in Anger: A Novel 3.38 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Lovely in Her Bones 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1993	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
	Residual Desire 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2003 — 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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Down the Road to Eternity: New & Selected Fiction

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Oh it’s good to be back reading the work of Elise Levine, this time her new book of nine stories, Big of You. As you may already know, there’s no one quite like Levine in terms of story—her unique way of creating the worlds we’re invited to enter, he ...more
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I’ve been thoroughly enjoying reading and being challenged by rob mclennan’s fine new book of stories, On Beauty. It’s called ‘stories,’ but the author’s approach to narrative is largely unconventional, untraditional, and distinctive. In mclennan’s w ...more
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Lisa, Marlis Wesseler’s protagonist, is a thoughtful, clear-headed woman whose world may seem plain on the surface but is anything but, below. Through her thoughts and observations readers see the complexities related to a heart conflicted in persona ...more
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“The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.”
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