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Harriet Alida Lye

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Richmond Hill, Canada

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Fiction, Memoir, Children's

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October 2017

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Harriet Alida Lye is the author of four books: two novels, one memoir, and one children's picture book. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Globe & Mail, The National Post, The Happy Reader, Hazlitt, Vice, Catapult, and more. She founded the literary magazine Her Royal Majesty, which ran for six years and republished the first ever short story by Alice Munro. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Toronto. She lives in Toronto with her partner, their two children, and two dogs. ...more

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Average rating: 3.43 · 2,344 ratings · 454 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Honey Farm 2.99 avg rating — 1,457 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Motherclown 4.10 avg rating — 356 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
	Natural Killer: A Memoir 4.43 avg rating — 245 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
	Let It Destroy You: A Novel 3.93 avg rating — 238 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
	Serge the Snail Without A Shell by Harriet Alida Lye (Goodreads Author), Rosa Rankin-Gee (Goodreads Author), Andrea Blinick (Artist) 4.57 avg rating — 37 ratings — 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
	Natural Killer: A Memoir of Love, Death, and New Life 4.57 avg rating — 7 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
	Serge, the Snail Without a Shell by Harriet Alida Lye (Goodreads Author), Rosa Rankin-Gee (Goodreads Author), Andrea Blinick (Illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 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

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“We never know the end of something as it's happening. It's only in the aftermath that we create a narrative, and story can only ever be a cousin of the truth.”
― Harriet Alida Lye, Let It Destroy You: A Novel

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“Everything dies. And we have to learn to love the world anyway. (Ibrahim’s father)”
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